iCloud for Snow Leopard

Why are you addressing us as Apple? These forums are user-to-user only. If you have comments or gripes, use the feedback page.

I'm sorry officer...why don't you check every other comment in this thread...looks like gripes to me! PS...policing a forum, get a f***in life bro. This comment comes user to user of course...

Hahahaha. Soorry folks. My original post was in the wrong thread. Sorry noondaywitch, my bad!

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No iCloud support for Snow Leopard... It's disgraceful - end of story!

Apple appear to have dumped those Snow Leopard users who, like me, are stuck on it due to hefty early investments in an iMac and MacBook Pro! Let alone, iPhone and iPad.

Furthermore, to add insult to injury, many of us have forked out 100s of dollars in MobileMe family membership fees over the past few years.

As of now, I have no over-air sync for Contacts & Notes between my iMac or MacBook Pro and my iPhone and iPad. Fortunately I discovered the CalDAV workaround for iCal so, at least, my diary is ok.

25 years of using Macs and this is the worst they've done.

Indeed. In fact regardless of if you can upgrade to Lion, what about those machines that you may have that cannot be upgraded; we still have a very usable iMac G5 and a PowerBook G4 that using MobileMe worked perfectly well. I cannot believe that syncing databases is a processor intensive task or even an OS intensive task. After all if it can be done under Windows why not Mac OS(n).

I would be quite happy to keep MobileMe. At least I had functionality.

icloud for snow leopard does work if you do the following:

Go to iCal preferences.

Set up new account.

Account Type: CalDAV

User Name: Your MobileMe / iCloud email address

Password: Your password for above

Server Address: p06-caldav.icloud.com

I'm frustrated by this, also... I really find it hard to believe that Apple has chosen to support iCloud on Windows OSes dating back to January 2007 (Vista) and is only supporting it on Mac OSes dating back to July 2011... This just doesn't seem right... Maybe they held off on the release date of it on Snow Leopard hoping to reduce migration traffic. I know that Lion has been popular, but there are reasons why some people can't or don't want to move to it!

so why can an ical user using any macosx version subscribe to an iCloud calendar, but you can't subscribe to your own if are not running lion?

So, iCloud needs OSX Lion and one has to buy it to continue the sync services...(with f.e. no Keychain sync)

So, iCloud - against all propaganda - IS NOT FREE (exept for the ones who never owned a Mac before)!

Thanks Apple!

siamless wrote:

So, iCloud needs OSX Lion and one has to buy it to continue the sync services...(with f.e. no Keychain sync)

So, iCloud - against all propaganda - IS NOT FREE (exept for the ones who never owned a Mac before)!

Thanks Apple!

iCloud is free for Lion and iOS5 Users. It is a feature of these two Operating Systems ( both are Darwin version 11 = Lion is "big OS for desktop" , iOS5 is "Lion mobile OS ", one and the same technology behind them ).

If you choose to run an incompatible OS then you can't have a feature of these new systems. What is not understandable in this ?

No, the question is: who doesn't understand whom?

Anm: Sie verstehen scheinbar nicht, was ich meine...

"No, the question is: who doesn't understand whom?"

Apparently you don't. If you have MobileMe (which you would have paid for), you would have sync services, and those continue until June of next year. If you upgrade to iCloud (which is a choice) then you need (at this moment) LIon and iOS5. iOS5 is free, Lion is a measly $30. If you don't want Lion, right now you pay nothing more and you still have full sync with MobileMe, it is only after you upgrade to iCloud certain things go away. So the answer is simple, don't upgrade your MobileMe service and nothing, absolutely nothing changes. Sure in June some decisions need to be made, but in the computer world eight months equals several years for other industries, by then they could have it working better for Snow Leopard, but it still would not be free, why should it be? MobileMe was never free. $100 a year is many fold more costly than a one time upgrade for $30. So if you want iCloud for free then yes, you need to buy Lion. If you are a MobileMe customer with devices that don't support Lion or don't want to pay more, then don't upgrade right now. Very simple. Who knows what will be available eight months from now.

As in the past, as it is for the present... Patience IS a virtue.

icloud for snow leopard does work if you do the following:

Go to iCal preferences.

Set up new account.

Account Type: CalDAV

User Name: Your MobileMe / iCloud email address

Password: Your password for above

Server Address: p06-caldav.icloud.com

I have this working perfectly with my calendars on my computers on Lion, iPad and laptop on Snow Leopard, but does anyone have info on how to sync Contacts? I still haven't gotten that to work.

You cannot, apparently. I asked Apple staff this question re: CardDAV Server info. Mind you, they had no clue about the CalDAV solution for iCal.

We're on our own guys. Just have to stick with iTunes sync for contacts.