Snow Leopard and iCloud

Apple is now loosing us old time Mac users. Since Lion can't support Rosetta (PPC) apps, we are not upgrading to Lion, and can't use Photostream feature.

I personally still run Quicken and Now Up to Date for my business and can't make the jump to Lion. I have talked to other small business owners and they are in the same situation.

I have tried BusyCal and iCal, and they just don't have the needed features of Now Up To Date.

Can you imagine how many Quicken users are not upgrading their machines to Lion due to the lost of Rosetta? Apple is turning it's back on many old Mac users....

I can deal with the loss of rosetta applications. My problem is the internet Bandwidth required to download system.

And the iPad-ifying the system. I want the computer to look, feel and act like a Computer not an iPad. I have the intelligence to work a computer. I might not be great with spelling and grammar but I do know how to use a computer. But we seem to be tilting at windmills. Mountain Lion will be even worse that Lion. I predict in 5 years, or less If you open your Macbook Pro you'll swear yor looking at your iPad if you have an iPad. I am not lookking Foreward to it.

By the way Microsoft is on the record that they will not go down the path of deliving systems over the Internet. They will continue with some type of media to deliver their systems.

pjonesCET:

I heartily agree with you. I have 3 Mac systems: 2 SLs and 1 Lion. I really prefer the SL OS. I now look at Mountain Lion! It is the iPad, as you say, on a computer. In addition to my Mac systems I have a WIN 7 PC. In many ways it is superior to the Mac. I haven't had it very long but with what I see Apple doing, I may not be with Mac much longer. What blows my mind is that I can use iCloud on my PC but can't use it on my main SL OS desktop. And I cannot upgrade my desktop to Lion since I would lose too much software.

I think the futire will be, if you want a computer, get a PC. If you want a toy and media player, use a Mac.

I woudn't brag too much about Windows. Windows 8 will be far worse than even mountain line I saw a screenshot of the opening screen and its filled strictly with large colored buttons sort of what you see on a Touch screen display. cNet news showed a Preview of what on windows 8. The is no start button nor can you get one.

Companies just come out with impractical junk just because it looks Jeewhizbang. There is going to end up a backlash from consumers.

Its not really support for icloud, but you can successfully sync icloud calendar to ical in snow leopard.

http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-get-ical-with-icloud-working-in.h tml

It's working for me syncing both ways between iphone iOS 5.1 and OSX 10.6.8 / iCal 4.0.4

Joe:

This helps. Thanks.

I would have done exactly the same thing, only my machine is suffering under the weight of parallels. It should work no problem in theory.

Exactly on the same boat as you..

Whatever Windows8 is like, I can't imagine Microsoft forcing its W7 users to pay up and upgrade... Apple is doing just that! What a shame!

I have iCloud Mail and iCal now properly working under Snow Leopard, so the various hints out there do work. I haven't found a way to reliably sync Address Book yet, though.

Király wrote:

I haven't found a way to reliably sync Address Book yet, though.

I'm afraid you won't be able to as Address Book doesn't have the CardDAV capability required for this.

Read posts and Apple guide documents at nauseatum.....

Your post is the most useful and to the point help! Thank you. Will try it. I do have a L machine (Air), but also two supped-up SN Intel machines that cannot be upgraded (and not going to spend several thousand of dollars to get new ones!). I also have a Mobile me account and an old iPhone.

The only thing I really care is to sync the calendars. Too bad will loose photo gallery, but Google + is there and is a good option for both calendars and contacts (though possibly cumberson for the latter). My son is happily using that for his pics, while lots of business associates use Google for calendars (I have to actualy tell any email invite to redirect to iCal!), etc.

Really sad Apple is taking this approach, I thought the "Cloud" is supposed to be the future and Google is the competition.

I migrated to the cloud today using my PowerMac G4 running Snow.

I had no problems at all, but I now can only access my data using the web.

I just can't believe Steve Jobs had any input to this decision.

You can set up Mail manually in Snow Leopard to access iCloud email; it's a slight fudge because the 'wizard' will attempt to connect you to MobileMe as soon as you enter an @me.com address. The process, which includes a workaround for this, is described here:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html

You may be able to sync your calendars to iCloud by means of an unsupported hack, and there is a convoluted hack which has been reported as working for Address Book (and as not working by others - I've not tried it), but iCloud's other facilities will not work. This page outlines the situation when you migrate to iCloud, including a link to the calendar hack:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudSL.html

There are a couple of third-party solutions which may be of interest.

•BusyCal is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion. A single user licence (two machines allowed) is $49.99.

•Soho Organizer can sync Calendars and Contacts with iCloud on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. A single user licence (multiple machines allowed) is $99.99.

(I have no connection with either firm.)