A friend showed up with a different email address than the one I’m used to seeing.
Is this icloud account from September 2012, his?
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If your friend had an @me.com address before fall of 2012 and they made an iCloud account then, the @me.com address became an alias to their @icloud.com inbox and can still be used. Same thing for @mac.com addresses that migrated to iCloud before MobileMe was shut down in 2012.
So yes, many people still have a functional @me.com and may even have a functional @mac.com address. They are both aliases to their @icloud.com iCloud email account.
iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
Anyone who did not move their MobileMe account to iCloud before 09/2012 lost use of their @me.com or @mac.com as functional email addresses though. They literally went poof on whatever day in 09/2012 the MobileMe servers were shut off.
If your friend had an @me.com address before fall of 2012 and they made an iCloud account then, the @me.com address became an alias to their @icloud.com inbox and can still be used. Same thing for @mac.com addresses that migrated to iCloud before MobileMe was shut down in 2012.
So yes, many people still have a functional @me.com and may even have a functional @mac.com address. They are both aliases to their @icloud.com iCloud email account.
iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
Anyone who did not move their MobileMe account to iCloud before 09/2012 lost use of their @me.com or @mac.com as functional email addresses though. They literally went poof on whatever day in 09/2012 the MobileMe servers were shut off.
Many, many millions of people use iCloud. In 2018 it was estimated to have about 850 million accounts. I’ve been using it since it was introduced in 2011, and I used MobileMe before that. So I too have both an @icloud.com address and an @me.com alias to that iCloud email account. I can use either @icloud.com or @me.com because the latter is just an alias to the former.
icloud is just Apple’s proprietary personal cloud service for their clients. Apple gives every iCloud account 5GB of free storage for email, and for synchronizing data (notes, contacts, files, etc) across one’s Apple devices. It also provides space for Apple mobile device backups. There are subscriptions available to get more space if needed -> iCloud - Apple
Why would someone want to use icloud?
i don’t trust it. I don’t understand.
Is it for traveling musicians and such?
To store their emails with less space?
or what? I’m clueless.
This started because I stopped getting “delivered”
after my texts to him, and that’s when this me.com
email address showed up as one of my friends.
I spooked out and blocked it
because i thought it was some goon trying to pretend.
But after research this me.com, no one can tell me
why its good, and why to use it.
does it explain why he’s being all mysterious
if i tell you that he is a celebrity who likes me,
but as they are, all kinda neurotic…
Not even close to answering a question idont even know how to ask. Sorry,
LaraDask wrote:
• A friend showed up with a different email address than the one I’m used to seeing.
Is this icloud account from September 2012, his?
My example is similar, but not his address for privacy reasons.
No iCloud email addresses are assigned in this way. Apple does not reserve addresses.
If Joe Bob has an @joebob.com email address, he would have to request joebob@icloud.com and if it was available, he could use that address. You can no longer request a new @me.com address.
If a person’s email address is x@joebob.com, would address for icloud be joebob@me.com?
