Apple Inc. has posted the following FAQ:
What’s happening to MobileMe?
Effective June 6, 2011, if you had an active MobileMe account, your service has been automatically extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge. After this, the MobileMe service will no longer be available.
What will happen to the content I have on MobileMe?
Apple has announced a new service called iCloud which will be available this fall and free for iOS 5 and OS X Lion users. When you sign up for iCloud, you’ll be able to keep your me.com or mac.com email address and move your MobileMe mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks to the new service.
When iCloud becomes available this fall, more details and instructions will be provided on how to make the move.
Can I create a new MobileMe account?
You can no longer create a new 60-day trial account or start a new subscription using a code contained in a MobileMe box. However, if you have a Family Pack subscription, you can still create new family member accounts.
Can I upgrade to a Family Pack or purchase additional storage?
Effective June 6, 2011, you can no longer upgrade your Individual account to a Family Pack or purchase additional storage for your MobileMe account.
I purchased a MobileMe box and have not used the activation code inside. Can I get refund for it?
Yes. If you have an unused activation code from a MobileMe box, you can submit a refund request. More info here.
So far I think I’m with you. However that may change once I really examine the iCloud possibilities. I’m a bit underwhelmed with it but we’ll see. I am very happy with IOS5 and Lion. Those are much more of value to me. As a user of AAPL goodies for over 25 years I have pleased with almost everything. Ok, MobileMe sucks but I have had it since .Mac hoping it would finally improve to be worthy of the AAPL banner. All this stuff is different and better even if I don’t use all of it. Now I need to hear that the new iPhone is coming soon. My 3GS is tired Steve. Hurry! Hurry!
Oh, the keening and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Tortured and tormented souls writhing in eternal suffering in the perpetual fire. There’s no floppy drive in the iMac. There’s no optical drive in the MacBook Air Jordan. My PowerPC won’t run Snow Leopard.
If you don’t want your technology to advance, Dells are cheap, and you’ll still be able to run your DOS applications.
itunes 10.3 is ready. I’m downloading right now
I have 20 Gigs of combined storage, email etc. on Mobile Me. iCloud is only 5 GB.
Apple also needs to clean up the whole Apple ID/Users in a household issue. In order to share apps and DRM video, you had to use a single Apple ID. And iTunes music and iPhoto takes up a lot of space so a lot of homes share a single Apple login. But it’s gotten messier with iPhone syncing and now iCloud.
Apple needs to separate the purchase ID from the user IDs. So I could have one ID for making purchases, but my syncing is done with another account that inherits the rights of the master account. Or something. Right now, it’s a mess.
Yet another clusterfsck from Apple regarding cloud services. MobileMe subscribers get screwed again. What happens to folks hosting web sites on MobileMe? Absolutely NO word from Apple. That means Fsck you subscriber!
Thanks alot Apple. You Fsck us over, again and again and again.
The Joker is right – only it’s worse than that:
Apple gave us iTools “a free lifetime service” which was discontinued and replaced by the DotMac pay service.
Next DotMac is abandoned by Apple but don’t worry DotMac home pages are supported indefinitely – until they are also abandoned by Apple and customers are forced to move web-pages to MobileMe and iWeb.
So with 20GB of web content on MobileMe/iWeb – Apple screws it’s customers yet again.
You know the old saying –
Screw me once – shame on you.
Screw me twice – shame on me.
Screw me three times – thank you Apple –
may I have another.
This whole thing STINKS. I’m losing my public folder that I rely on for my business. God only knows what will happen to my calendar syncing and email which have been screwed up every time Apple has “improved” dotmac/MobileMe/iCloud. Like many other people here I have thousands of dollars in legacy applications that will be killed by the loss of Rosetta including some applications that have no Lion compatible equivalent. The only solution anyone has offered me is to buy an old Mac and use it for those legacy apps. That’s BULLSHIT.
I’ve just had someone from Apple explain to me that MobileMe is a product, that they sell it in a box like a product, and that when you buy a product that becomes obsolete, you don’t expect to take it back to the store for a refund.
Well, Apple, you’re wrong!! Mobile Me is not a product, it’s a subscription service, no matter how much cardboard you use. And if you make people pay their subscriptions a year in advance, then tell them that they’ve just paid for a free service but that’s their bad luck, don’t expect them to like it. Or you.
I really do not understand I am running Lion and have a me account So I am entitled for an iCloud free which includes all features of mobile me that I am using. I had renewed my me account ( automatically ) a few days before iCloud was announced as a free product. Can I get my 99 or part of it back after transfering to iCloud
Not shared anymore the purchased content in iTunes.
Also not shared anymore magazines subscriptions with Zinio and magazines with there own app.
Now there is Newsstand with Lion: I bought a magazine on her computer with my apple ID and my credit card.
but I cannot read the magazine on my laptop.