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icloud on snow leopard

icloud on snow leopard?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 6:31 AM

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Feb 13, 2012 4:52 AM in response to nellosrm

Hi.


I don't want to switch to Lion. And I'm furious that Snow Leopard doesn't support iCloud.


But I think that iCloud support will be bring within the end of Mobile Me. Not to put aside the Mobile Me user in Snow Leopard.


I hope. Because it would be amazing that my mid-2010 Mac would be exclude from iCloud even though an older PC runing Vista is enjoying iCould features!


For the moment, Apple forces us to buy Lion.

Feb 13, 2012 9:11 AM in response to FrankFR

FrankFR wrote:


Hi.


I don't want to switch to Lion. And I'm furious that Snow Leopard doesn't support iCloud.


But I think that iCloud support will be bring within the end of Mobile Me. Not to put aside the Mobile Me user in Snow Leopard.


I hope. Because it would be amazing that my mid-2010 Mac would be exclude from iCloud even though an older PC runing Vista is enjoying iCould features!


For the moment, Apple forces us to buy Lion.

Probably unwise to hold your breath on that one.

Feb 13, 2012 9:52 AM in response to Allan Eckert

I refuse bc I upgraded to Lion on my macbook and it ate software that I need for work. And the scroll bar is stupid and difficult. And I can no longer search my mac the way I could in the past. And the mail ***** teh way they thread instead of allowing a true search. Sitting iwth the 2 machines next to each other I cannot find items in Lion that I can in Snow Leopard. I am returning the iphone if I cant get this fixed

Feb 13, 2012 11:18 AM in response to nellosrm

I am confused! Please understand, I have been an Apple user since my Apple IIc, thru all the various iterations of Mac from System 7 & 8 up to snow leopard. I have so far chosen not to upgrade to Lion due to the loss of some programs [i.e. Quicken for Mac].

Unfortunately, cause I got myself an iPhone 4, I went from MobileMe to iCloud. Now my mail on my Mac is not downloading correctly, my iMac calanders are not syncing, etc.

I have found that I can go online to my iCloud account and find my mail but there does not seem to be a way to sync my iCal from my iMac to my MacBook Pro.

Am I missing something, or has Apple just gotten too big and successful to care about us users?

Ron

Feb 13, 2012 12:40 PM in response to Allan Eckert

I don't want to upgrade, because I fear to transform my MacBook Pro mid-2010 into a PC running Vista.

I don't want to lose 3 hours of battery life.

But in the other hand I want the new Mail, iCloud, and so on...

Snow Leopard on my Mac is so fluid, fast, easy, no bugs, no crash, efficient, etc.

And frankly, my computer is not 2 years old yet. It was sold with Snow Leopard. I mean hello, Snow Leopard should include iCloud features. It's unfair to know that PC Vista users can enjoy iCloud.

Voilà, I hope that before the end of Mobile Me that Snow Leopard will be updated with iCloud features.

Best regards

Feb 26, 2012 5:49 AM in response to nellosrm

I have been using Macs since...the very first Mac...I still have that Macintosh, and the subsequent Macintosh Plus as well as the Macintosh SE....ALL THREE BOOT AND FUNCTION STILL....


....I did some work for Apple in the 80's and got a first hand experience and clear understanding of the corporate culture and values at that time and I also did some work for Next and had a more intimate and direct experience of the daily work routines of Steve Jobs, both the genius and the demons.


I have every single commercially released version of OSX on disc, including the "pre-release beta" which was sold to the public for $39.00...


.....and now I find myself here, owner of several MacBook Pros, Mac Minis, iMacs and Mac Pros (including Server software), confronted with Lion.....and I can only say that it seems as though Lion's release was rushed to market in time to beat Steve's death, as it was truly an unfinished product like none from Apple I've ever experienced....and that Steve's "Reality Distortion Field" is surly an embedded part of the current Apple corporate culture.


When I found this post while searching for another issue, I was diverted and started to write my response, but an hour later I found I had begun a mini-novel....and two hours later I realized Apple would surly not allow its post here as they sanitize this resource so thoroughly as to make it useless to many people....AND....be assured, there is NO FREE SPEECH tolerated in full here....so, when I'm happy with my reply in full, I'll return and post a link so I may be read by those interested. I would not want to tarnish this "perfect and pristine" world, no matter how fabricated or false it truly is.


This leaves us all with the single major dilema I have always seen between Apple and its users: For all of the innovation and creativity that Apple has given and sold the world, the stability and reliability needed for business and surly anyone who in turn needs to be relied upon or be seen as stable, it does not and likely will not exist....or at least if it does or has, it did or will for only a very short periond of time....."bits of stability."


The trade off between innovation and stability has been a tough one. Lion has taken from me time, money, effieincy and much much more...genius major features that were part of my daily work flow are GONE....features as fundamental and as old as the first Macintosh....GONE!!!...spell check on STEROIDS re-writing my writing....and I, of course, regret GREATLY having upgraded the day it was made available. I subsequenlty spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort (and again, money) trying to return several machines to Snow Leopard, but in the end, realized it was futile and that we are all being FORCED into it....FORCED, that is, unless we settle for, say something lesser, like Windows....or maybe a better alternative like Ubuntu...???


I do have "Faith" in Apple....to make Lion into a great product....it is now, after multiple releases in a very short time, a much much better and maybe even really great OS....but they are likely to abandon it shortly after it is finallly fully refined and then they'll likely release another half-baked OS for all of us to struggle with....again.


....is there any wonder why Apple has never captured the business world or why Apple's user base is so small?

Feb 28, 2012 9:25 AM in response to Csound1

I've just had a long 'chat' with an AppleTech and it's my understanding that after June 12 MacMail will totally not work on Snow Leopard--- so guess we'll have to start notifying contacts of a new 'non-mac' email address--- I really feel betrayed for I paid $99 a year since 2007 just so I would ALWAYS have a stable email address even if I changed ISPs... Bah Humbug@

Feb 28, 2012 4:48 PM in response to GlenCarbon

I think you may have misunderstood. Your Mail program will still work with any server you like but not with a .me address as that address will no longer exist. From what I understand it is possible to migrate your .me mail account to an iCloud account using Snow Leopard. I am not positive it will work but see no reason why it would not, if you set it up properly. I have not tried it but I have seen posts about how to do it. I have no idea how Apple feels about it. Of course other features of that you had with .me won't work. If you are paying for Mobile me account now it actually would be cheaper to update your operating system when compared to the annual price of a Mobile me.


Things change and in this industry they change pretty quick. Not much you can do but try to go with the changes or find alternatives. For me, I am just going to upgrade to Lion and take advantage of what it has to offer. It's an inexpensive upgrade and I like the idea of of the cloud and want to use it so I will spend the money.


Each person has to decide these things. Changing the .XXX in an email address is not a huge deal to me. I will notify those important to me and maybe it will help reduce the amount of junk and spam mail I get in my inbox for a time.

Feb 28, 2012 4:58 PM in response to Al Van Malsen

Al Van Malsen wrote:


I think you may have misunderstood. Your Mail program will still work with any server you like but not with a .me address as that address will no longer exist. From what I understand it is possible to migrate your .me mail account to an iCloud account using Snow Leopard. I am not positive it will work but see no reason why it would not, if you set it up properly. I have not tried it but I have seen posts about how to do it. I have no idea how Apple feels about it. Of course other features of that you had with .me won't work. If you are paying for Mobile me account now it actually would be cheaper to update your operating system when compared to the annual price of a Mobile me.


Things change and in this industry they change pretty quick. Not much you can do but try to go with the changes or find alternatives. For me, I am just going to upgrade to Lion and take advantage of what it has to offer. It's an inexpensive upgrade and I like the idea of of the cloud and want to use it so I will spend the money.


Each person has to decide these things. Changing the .XXX in an email address is not a huge deal to me. I will notify those important to me and maybe it will help reduce the amount of junk and spam mail I get in my inbox for a time.


No, I think you misunderstand, if you move your account to iCloud before 6/30/12 you can keep your .me and / or .mac email address, and you can collect it in any Imap client (of which Mac Mail is one of many)

Feb 28, 2012 5:31 PM in response to Csound1

I may have and if so I apologize but if I do than isn't your entire complaint moot? You will still have the same e mail address only now it won't cost you $99.00. Why would that be a problem? You will still be able to access it with the email client of your choice. I really must not get the point of your complaint. I knwo I can be dense so please enlighten me.

Feb 28, 2012 6:13 PM in response to Al Van Malsen

Al Van Malsen wrote:


I may have and if so I apologize but if I do than isn't your entire complaint moot? You will still have the same e mail address only now it won't cost you $99.00. Why would that be a problem? You will still be able to access it with the email client of your choice. I really must not get the point of your complaint. I knwo I can be dense so please enlighten me.

I am not complaining, I am responding to your statement that:


"Your Mail program will still work with any server you like but not with a .me address as that address will no longer exist"


Which is incorrect of course, as is the assertion that iCloud mail will not work on Snow Leopard.

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