Apple ICloud is going to be a problem for me
By bostonphil
@bostonphil (4459)
United States
March 3, 2012 1:37pm CST
Apple is introducing ICloud as of June 30th. For me, it is going to be a real problem. If you have a mobile me account, you need to upgrade. I have to purchase Lion but in order to upgrade to Lion, I need to add more memory. It is going to cost me more than $200 to upgrade to ICloud.
After June 30th, mobile me is no longer available. For me, that means no more emails on my account which has been my primary account. It will be impossible to access my emails. They will be gone, folders and all. I have other email accounts but this has been my primary one. I will not even be able to view my old emails. They are going poof in the night.
If I choose not to upgrade, I will have to inform friends and others of my new email address. I am going to have to forward very important ones to another email address. If I choose to upgrade, I will have to shell out more than $200 to do so. This sounds like a lose-lose situation.
I am not the only unhappy Apple camper. I have been reading on line posts about the changes. We were only informed about this last week.
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@SpikeTheLobster (6399)
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3 Mar 12
Sounds like a standard Apple approach to everything: pay us more because we're cooler than you.
Is there no way to set a forwarding address so that it gets transferred with the account from mobile me to iCloud? That way all your emails would still be forwarded to another service (say, Gmail or something) and you wouldn't even need to access their email.
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@bostonphil (4459)
• United States
3 Mar 12
I will have to look into the possibility. Mobile Me is not even going to exist after June 30th so I do not know what might happen to an email that someone might send to my ME account after that date. I am going to have to go to The Apple Store and have a chat with them.
I do have a gmail account and a yahoo account but I have always used my ME account for friends and some business relationships.
Apple did something like this to me a couple of years back. I bought the first generation IPad. Luckily they activated it for me at the store. I was unable to upgrade or sync because I only had Tiger operating system and it required Snow Leopard.If it had not been activated at the store, I would not have been able to activate it. I paid a lot of money to buy Snow Leopard and then I had terrible problems for months afterwards because I needed more memory to run Snow Leopard. It finally archived or synced or whatever. I was getting an ulcer from the problems that I was having. I thought that i was going to have to buy a new computer.
Now this. I have no control over the situation. Apple has made a decision for me that I need to move mobile me to ICloud. For me, I have to pay between $200 to $300 to do this. Or I can give up my mobile me email and some other features. But that is going to be a hassle for me.
@SpikeTheLobster (6399)
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6 Mar 12
That's typical Apple. What more do you expect from a company whose upgrade policy is effectively "throw out your old machine and buy a new one"? That's why I've always stuck with PCs... they last a lot longer, cost a lot less and are just as good for virtually everything (assuming you know what you're doing).
