Do I need to have Mobil me?

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josburn1985 Author

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Do I need to have Mobil me?

Okay so I was wondering if it was necessary for me to keep the other programs if I do not use them? If I delete Mobilme and iCloud, it won't interfere with iTunes will it?

iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009), Windows 7

Posted on Jul 22, 2012 1:17 PM

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Jul 22, 2012 1:23 PM in response to josburn1985

HI,

MobileMe was the service Apple ran before iCloud.

The last time you could pay for this service was during June 2011.

All Account during that month were extended to June 30th 2012 when Apple Announced they were changing to the free iCloud service.

Many people have changed to the iCloud service using the same name (username@me.com)

As some parts of the OS still refer to MobileMe at present and iCloud is so tied up with your Apple ID it is not wise to delete them.

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Jul 22, 2012 1:29 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Well with iCloud, I don't use it nor do I use Mobilme.. it's just there on my hard drive sucking up space so I was curious if I could just get rid of them since I don't use them at all. That was initially what I was curious about.

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deggie

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Jul 22, 2012 1:31 PM in response to josburn1985

How is iCloud sucking up hard drive space?

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Jul 22, 2012 1:38 PM in response to josburn1985

I would tend to agree with deggie.

As there are only several places, mostly in System Preferences, that make reference to either iCloud or MobileMe and there are no separate apps as such... How do you propose to remove the references when they are an integral part of the place they appear in ?

9:38 PM Sunday; July 22, 2012

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Jul 22, 2012 1:39 PM in response to deggie

Not much but I'm trying to get rid of programs I don't need..for some reason my computer has a partition between the hard drive and the section that the computer runs off of for programs so I have been trying to create more space without having the need of a rewriting to take the partition down. It looks like I might have to do that later though :\ gotta love Dell for their little quirks..

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Jul 22, 2012 1:42 PM in response to josburn1985

Hi,

You have Mac OS running on a Non Mac machine and come to the Apple Discussion boards to seek help ?

9:42 PM Sunday; July 22, 2012

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josburn1985 Author

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Jul 22, 2012 1:44 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Well I figure if it doesn't work then I'll uninstall all of the Apple components and reinstall it.. pretty simple isn't it?

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josburn1985 Author

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Jul 22, 2012 1:48 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Lol well it all came with the updates.. it never occured to me to not download those, I didn't know what they were so instead of asking me why I downloaded Mac programs onto a non-mac machine..how about some explination of the programs and their uses? If I don't have to use them then I shall simply delete and move on.

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deggie

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Jul 22, 2012 1:48 PM in response to josburn1985

Not as much as you think. And a violation of the software license.

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josburn1985 Author

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Jul 22, 2012 1:51 PM in response to deggie

Wait, what violation?

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Jul 22, 2012 1:54 PM in response to josburn1985

Hi,

Apple Software is only given a End User Licence Agreement to be used on Mac computers.

Edit.

There are, technically, limits to how many computers certain Software can be installed on from one Download or Install Disk.

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deggie

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Jul 22, 2012 1:54 PM in response to josburn1985

Are you running OS X on your Dell? If not, what updates are you talking about?

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josburn1985 Author

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Jul 23, 2012 10:40 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Yeah, I see where I misunderstood you. I didn't know there were differences because the updates (for my iPod deggie) were just there with no diserning labels to say that it was for mac or PC. I'm running OS Windows 7 on my Dell. I got it sorted out so no more worries. So now I'm just downloading the iTunes updates and bits that are meant for my iPod and iTunes.

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Jul 24, 2012 11:08 AM in response to josburn1985

Ah ha !

A lot more clearer.

(There are posts from time to time about so called "Hackintosh" where people have forced the whole Mac OS onto a windows computer)

Sounds like you are making progress.

7:08 PM Tuesday; July 24, 2012

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