No iCloud on Snow Leopard? THIS IS A JOKE, APPLE!

For contacts, calendars and pictures you can use Google.

darix wrote:

For contacts, calendars and pictures you can use Google.

Then why suggest DropBox?

It's a good replacement for iDisk.

See, I really enjoyed MobileMe but I have Snow Leopard so I'm out. But I'm not dieing: there's plenty of good stuff if you look around. At good price.

darix wrote:

It's a good replacement for iDisk.

See, I really enjoyed MobileMe but I have Snow Leopard so I'm out. But I'm not dieing: there's plenty of good stuff if you look around. At good price.

iCloud does not have iDisk functionality, so in that respect DropBox (or better yet SugarSync) would replace that single component, but another service is still needed to sync contacts & calendars etc.

Of course. So? It works.

No..BUT YES....we can use google.

AND....

http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-stor age-box50gb/

I think these guys are going big. I wouldn't be surprised is Syncing of Address and Calendars is going to give Apple a run for their money with Snow Leopard Users!!!

Kimbakat wrote:

No..BUT YES....we can use google.

AND....

http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-stor age-box50gb/

I think these guys are going big. I wouldn't be surprised is Syncing of Address and Calendars is going to give Apple a run for their money with Snow Leopard Users!!!

What happens if you have an OSX device instead, or as well as an IOS device, it seems the insane amount of storage is for IOS devices?

"insane amount of storage"...--- a bunch of newbie crickets just sounded after that comment.

My MUSIC collection is comprised of 12" mixes from 1972 - 1986 and is 50 GB ALONE!

My old FIREWIRE iPOD is 80 GB in itself..I was laughing my *** off when Apple put out an 8 GB iPhone which is DESIGNED to be a MULTI-MEDIA device. LOL...ah....water tears in my eyes!

50 GB of my music did NOT come from iTunes purchases. It's a 30 year collection... one 12" vinyl record ALONE is worth $160 and various CDs before the compression era (2000) which cuts off the highs and lows making your music sound loud and STUPID!

So this idea of iTunes cloud licensed "streamed" watered-down corporate owned version has NOTHING to do with my collection. AND..why would I want to constantly STREAM using up my Stupidass U.S. deregulated limited data limitations. At least the UK has regulations that you can use ANY provider with ANY phone..and the competition is fierce giving the Europeans tons of unlimited options in Europe. Here, in the U.S...we continue to take it up the rear.

Now should we talk about my DVD collection?

I have an almost 2 TB server on the side just to store it..and another 2 TB to back it up?

Now what do you think I can do with 32 GB on my phone...NOT MUCH after my apps and music.

Now should I talk about my DOCUMENTS/GRAPHIC DESIGN jobs on the side?

32 GB iPhone MY ***!!! - It's a thumb drive size for a week's worth of backup from my office!

I was like..wait a sec..my iPod is 80 GB..are these people stupid for not demanding physical space from Apple? YES..they are very stupid, naieve and have no foresignt....because constant cloud streaming is going to be the BANE of your days...unless you were lucky enought to get onto AT&T unlimited plan before they closed it.

Kimbakat wrote:

I was like..wait a sec..my iPod is 80 GB..are these people stupid for not demanding physical space from Apple? YES..they are very stupid, naieve and have no foresignt....because constant cloud streaming is going to be the BANE of your days...unless you were lucky enought to get onto AT&T unlimited plan before they closed it.

I also don't see the benefit of the streaming in iCloud.

We have two iPhones, both are on the 200meg plan. We usually use around 160 megs a month, mostly for email and web.

My music collection is 40 gigs. Most of the newer stuff is from iTunes but all the older stuff was from CDs or vinyl. My iPhoto library is 80 gigs and my iMovie videos are another 120 gigs.

My work projects which are just under 2 TB and growing.

My iPhone is 16 GB so I have my favorite play lists syncing to it. I also have an old 40 GB FireWire iPod in my car that I keep updated.

I don't want my pictures streaming into the cloud, at least not on a 200 meg plan. For $10 more a month I can get on the 2 gig plan.

Then he music streaming. I listen to music a lot using my iPhone. It has the latest mixes that I've been listing to at home. I plug my phone in at least once a day to charge and its playlists get update then. Streaming my music collection to it is really going to increase my bandwidth usage so I guess I would end up on the 4 GB for $45 a month plan and really hope I don't go over at $10 per gig.

This means my monthly bill would go up $30 per month and we have two iPhones so it would actually be $60 more a month to stream everything using iCloud. Hopefully 4 GB.

So the streaming part of iCloud isn't something that I want.

All I really want is for all my Mac computers (regardless of if it running 10.5 or 10.6 or 10.7), iPhones and iPads to stay in sync for the stuff that MobileMe does now.

This "Just Works" and "Just Works" is why I use Apple products.

Apple is killing this next year, I was happy to pay for a MobileMe Family Pack each year.

I'm frustrated and just hoping to find some collection of stuff to replace MobileMe with.

Honestly it just doesn't make sense to me other than maybe Apple is hoping to make more off of forced hardware upgrades rather than money from offering services like MobileMe.

Right???? I don't see how this is helping the already gouged U.S. consumer?

It's a shame..I shouldn't HAVE to go to Google to get my Apple **** done!

I don't see why you have to sook about and rant about something you don't have to use and can just turn off in your settings. Or does ranting make you feel a whole lot better?

Cheers

I am just amazed at comments like this..it's as if no one has read the TECHNICALITIES in this entire thread.

Maybe you read it..but didn't comprehend.

If you are on Snow Leopard and have other devices you CANNOT upgrade to iOS5 on any of them. Your gamble is that your calendars and addresses will not sync.

Not only do you have to feel like it's a gamble. You cannot upgrade to LION on top of it because the other extreme costs of very pricey video or graphic editing programs that run into the thousands of dollars that suddenly do not run in Lion.

This is more than a rant..it's like saying..guess what....We are going to upgrade your car..but you cannot use every gas station to get to work..and you can't take the highway anymore...but if you do..you have to pay some heavy tolls now for the use of them.

Same thing.

Would you be ******? It's not making me feel better..it's making me feel sick!

Richard Schletty wrote:

The only thing holding me back from upgrading to Lion is the loss of Rosetta. You must realize that that is huge for some. For me, it would mean I would have to shell out $200 to Intuit to upgrade from QuickBooks 2007 which works just fine in Snow Leopard. I also have a couple other PPC-code apps which would not run under Lion on my MacBook Pro 17"...

Richard:

I use Quicken 2002 on a daily basis (and other PPC programs less often) on my new July, 2011 Mac Mini with Lion. See this post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209335?answerId=16247806022#16247806022

see last message from me...

Kimbakat wrote:

HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL ROSETTA FROM AN OLD SNOW LEOPARD SYSTEM CD ONTO LION?????????

If works..then I WILL upgrade to LION.

Otherwise..I hope there is another company that can sync your address/cal/and email on the iphone.

When opportunity knocks....