MobileMe

How To Get 23GB of Free Cloud Storage If You Had MobileMe

Have MobileMe? Finally getting kicked off the free-year-of-cloud storage gravy train? Microsoft’s got a deal for you. 15GB sure ain’t bad, but add it on top of Skydrive’s baseline free 7GB (10GB if you’re a student! JK! that promotion is over), and you can max out at a hefty 2523GB. https://gizmodo.com/mobileme-will-live-for-another-year-as-find-my-iphone-e-5809161 Pretty sneaky, sis. But…

Apple is giving another year of free iCloud storage to people who used/suffered through MobileMe.

You Can Now Get an iCloud.com Email Address

If you’re a heavy user of Apple’s iCloud service, you can now stake your claim for an email account ending in @icloud.com. If, you know, you’re bored (or incredibly and irrevocably spammed) on your Gmail or Hotmail or whatever else. Here’s how, straight from the iOS 6 Beta 3 Release Notes: icloud.com email addresses are…

MobileMe Shuts Down Tomorrow: Save Your Pictures and Files Before They Disappear

If you didn’t get the memo last year, here’s your last warning: MobileMe is shutting down on Saturday June 30th. That’s tomorrow. If you still have pictures in your MobileMe Gallery or files on iDisk, save it or it’s going bye bye forever! https://gizmodo.com/unraveling-the-mobilemess-of-the-mobileme-to-icloud-mig-5851393 Most everything that you once used for MobileMe works in iCloud,…

Unraveling the MobileMess of the MobileMe to iCloud Migration

Apple is known for its ability to create products that are easy to use and even easier to understand. Too bad that ease of use doesn’t translate to their latest cloud features. Instead, they’ve seemed to have mastered the art of confusing the hell out of everyone. Especially customers who have been using MobileMe for…

OMG APPLE CAN I PLEASE MERGE MY APPLE ID AND MOBILEME ACCOUNTS FOR ICLOUD

I’m super excited for iCloud but I’m still wondering what the hell I’m going to do with my two separate Apple ID accounts: my original one, which I made to buy stuff on iTunes—and still use to buy apps—and then the MobileMe account that Apple forced you to make as a separate Apple ID. I…

Apple Will Merge All Your Accounts Into One

You probably have an Apple ID. You might have more than one. It’s also possible you have a MobileMe account. So with the impending launch of iCloud, which login will you use? It turns out, you won’t have to choose. MacRumors reports the company’s “working on” the ability to consolidate all of your myriad Apple…

Apple Grants MobileMe Users 25GB of Free iCloud Storage Space Until June 2012

There are all sorts of goodies coming out of the iCloud developer build that arrived this weekend, the first being news that MobileMe customers transitioning to the service will receive 25GB of storage space once the service launches. Says Mac Rumors, Apple has confirmed MobileMe users will automatically get this upgrade, which is comprised of…

Hmmm, iCloud Dude Leaves Apple

Make of this what you will: Senior product manager for iCloud, John Herbold, has left Apple—a third major exec to exit recently(ish) notes 9to5Mac, following Apple Store creator Ron Johnson and OS X godfather Bertrand Serlet. [9to5mac] https://gizmodo.com/fortunes-inside-apple-shows-apples-inner-workings-5799649

MobileMe Will Live for Another Year as Find My iPhone Escapes From Its Grasp

MobileMe will die someday. Just not anytime soon, since apple will keep MobileMe operational until June 30, 2012. But now that iCloud is here (and free), all MobileMe subscriptions from the last year, will be free until they expire. According to GigaOm, if you recently bought the service, but have yet to activate it, or…

An Educated Rumor: iCloud Isn’t the New MobileMe—It’s the New iTunes

We’re getting a better and better idea of what iCloud’s going to look like—music streaming, maybe something Time Capsule-y. But not the whole picture. The typically accurate John Gruber suggests a handy way to conceptualize iCloud: https://gizmodo.com/apples-icloud-to-launch-as-a-free-service-then-cost-25-5808045 Don’t think of iCloud as the new MobileMe; think of iCloud as the new iTunes. Albeit it’s what…

Apple To Bundle iCloud For Free With OS X Lion

Apple may offer its new iCloud service for free to folks with Mac OS X Lion, according to AppleInsider. To sweeten the deal, Lion may be priced extremely competitive and sold through the Mac App Store. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-lion-will-be-downloadable-through-the-mac-app-stor-5798679 The company is expected to introduce the latest version of OS X, iOS 5 and a new iCloud…

iCloud Is Coming to WWDC

Apple is finally ready to show off iCloud, its cloud service that they built that massive data center for. It was always a matter of when, rather than if, but at WWDC, we’ll finally get to see what they’re planning. https://gizmodo.com/apple-building-secret-massive-data-center-probably-to-5339977 Apple oh-so-casually made mention of the service today in a WWDC press release, but…

Mysterious “Castle” Appears in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Will there be a Castle in the iCloud when Mac OS X 10.7 Lion arrives? New screens suggest there could be, although what’s contained in this strange feature remains very much a mystery. The feature (or platform, or…?) was discovered by French blog Consomac, which had stumbled across the reference to a “Castle” while digging…

Confirmed: Apple Does Own iCloud.com

We’ve already stated what Apple’s cloud could be for and now, here’s even more definitive proof that it’s coming. Moving from “rumor” to “confirmed,” Digital Daily reports that Apple has indeed purchased the domain iCloud.com. [Digital Daily]

Rumor: Apple’s Giant Cloud Is Live and Will Rain More than Just Music

Last fall, we lamented Apple’s anemic internet game—Ping sucks, iTunes is outdated, and Game Center is left hanging in the background. Rumors indicate iCloud could change all that—an online Apple world, cohesively streaming all your favorite personal junk. https://gizmodo.com/the-seeds-of-apples-cloud-5628255 Apple Insider, citing “people familiar with the matter,” says Apple is already using the iCloud label…

MobileMe Cost to Decrease to Just $20?

Would Apple see more sign-ups to MobileMe if it were free? Undoubtedly, but lowering it from $99/year to $20 will still be advantageous for them. That’s if these latest rumors are correct. The cloud-based “back-up” service we last heard about has been mentioned again, and is beginning to sound very likely. https://gizmodo.com/apple-considering-unlimited-downloads-of-itunes-purchas-5776395 Instead of streaming…

Calm Down, Apple Isn’t Starting a Real Streaming Music Service

For a long time now, many have speculated Apple might start their own “all you can eat” streaming music service to compete against the likes of Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody. But anonymous industry sources are telling the Financial Times that Apple has no plans to “cannibalize” their iTunes download service, and that the technology they…

Apple’s Ginormous NC Data Center Is For (Cloud-Based?) iTunes After All

That massive data center Apple’s spent the last few years building in North Carolina? As suspected, it’s there to support iTunes, the company confirmed today. That’s a whole lot of storage to be used for anything other than a cloud-based iTunes. https://gizmodo.com/apple-building-secret-massive-data-center-probably-to-5339977 The space will also be used to handle MobileMe—another cloud initiative that could…

Perfectly-Timed Apple Rumor Hints at Tiny iPhones, MobileMe Overhaul

Wouldn’t you know it, but just as Samsung was rebooting its well-received (but sales, meh?) Galaxy S line of tablets and smartphones at MWC, an Apple iPhone rumor arrives courtesy the Wall Street Journal. Updated. The WSJ all but confirms rumors we heard inklings of earlier this month, in which Apple was said to be…