If i can't use my @me account as my apple id, then, what's the point of creating the @me account ???

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If i can't use my @me account as my apple id, then, what's the point of creating the @me account ???

So what's the use of the @me account if you can't use it as an Apple ID, I just created an @me account so i can steer away from my current email address (which is linked to my internet provider) this way i would have the choice to leave them if i please without loosing my email address.

Apple told me and I quote "you can not use an @me.com nor can you use an @mac.com address as an apple id, you should first create a @gmail.com for example if you don't want to have a domain related address that's tied in to your ISP".

Am i missing something here??? what's wrong with this picture. You need to create an mail address somewhere just so you can create an "apple service" email address.

Sincerely

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I don't get it.

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 8:13 PM

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Jan 23, 2012 9:13 PM in response to Dino_P

You just registered for a .me email? If I remember correctly, Apple shut down the MobileMe registration. The .me.com homepage redirects you to iCloud, which is an Apple ID. So, if you have a .me email address, go to https://www.me.com/move/ and get started.

As far as creating a new e-mail, what's so bad about it? Setting up a g-mail account takes less than a couple of minutes at most.

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Jan 24, 2012 6:25 AM in response to xtremecarbon

I'm trying to simplify things and narrow it all down so in the end I can have only one email address for everything but this is forcing me to have 2.

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Jan 28, 2012 5:49 PM in response to Dino_P

I have the same problem, I would like to have one email address to link all of my accounts. If it uses iCloud to sync all my calenders and what not why can't I receive any mail from the account? I have to send all my mail to my gmail then use iCloud for everything else. I just want to use iCloud. But it says you cannot use a @me.com as your apple ID?

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Jan 28, 2012 6:21 PM in response to Nathvader

I spent 2.5 hrs on the phone a couple of nights ago with apple tech support, basically it boils down to this:

You need an existing apple ID to create an iCloud account (@me.com)

The reason for this, the Apple tech told me, is that they want people who own and use Apple products to to have a @me.com in other words they don't want the service to be like a gmail or yahoo that just anybody signs up for.

In my opinion they should simply have it as follows: you buy and register an Apple product you're entitled to "X" amount of @me.com addresses per person, per device up to a maximum of whatever amount. if that number is 5 upto a maximum of 15 that would make sense, you now have enough @me.com address for a familly that could be created as sub addresses of the parent in charge of the account.

Make sense???

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