Comments on: Possible iCloud Feature List

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:04:47 +0000

Well, I just renewed my subscription for MobileMe. I hope I get a refund. ;-P

By: Tice

Tice — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:25:44 +0000

Hmm… feels like this: http://blog.tice.de/a_pics/iChain.jpg

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:06:06 +0000

What about online backup, TimeMachine to the cloud? Surely that would be an obvious feature of a cloud service too.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:27:34 +0000

iCloud is almost certainly going to merge if not consume MobileMe. What is known as MobileMe now might even be what is free in Lion, assuming that rumor holds true.

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:05:10 +0000

@Parakeet – MANY people use MobileMe already and that number would only increase with more features. A price decrease would be great… I think $39/year is more reasonable for what it currently offers. I don’t see how it could be free w/o ads (ick)

So, this whole iCloud thing is very foggy (pun intended). Do y’all think iCloud & MobileMe would eventually be a part of the same service? That would seem like a natural progression.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:02:35 +0000

Wireless syncing is a must, but what would be even COOLER would be if wireless syncing was true cloud syncing, meaning you can sync to your home computer from anywhere. THAT would be amazing.

The other stuff is obviously huge but kind of mundane to me, but I also never found MobileMe worthy of the cost.

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:28:47 +0000

The last thing we need is a free AD supported Mobile Me. Like it or not Apple does an excellent job of keeping it’s mail services and the like running and in the case of Mail free from spam.

Besides if nobody used Mobile Me we wouldn’t be seeing all of those .me.com e-mail addresses.

By: Parakeet

Parakeet — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:05:09 +0000

If they want people to actually use it, it should be free. Nobody uses MobileMe because it doesn’t offer enough to be worth $99, not even close. Look at DropBox, Pandora, Spotify, and other cloud services, they’re free or very cheap to use. It has to follow this model or it won’t matter how exciting the feature list is, nobody will use it.