“According to a posting on the Apple Developer boards this afternoon, Apple will be resetting iCloud Backup data on Thursday, September 22nd,” Jake Smith reports for 9to5Mac.
“We believe Apple is performing this reset for the release of iOS 5 GM, which will be released around the same time of the reset,” Smith reports. “iOS 5 GM will be the last release before iOS 5′s official debut in early October.”
Smith reports, “This reset doesn’t include data from mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, or bookmarks.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
I can see how iCloud is going to be a disaster of MobileMe proportions…
Apple really screwed up with MobileMe and the confluence of Dot Mac…. so now we’ll have THREE(?) services to hope and pray work correctly?
Not on your life!
But I DO hope they make it work!
As an iTools/.Mac/MobileMe longtime user, I don’t get the ‘disaster’ comments. I’ve seen far worse ‘disasters’.
What has been wrong IMHO has been:
(1) Apple’s dependence upon the flaky and stagnant WebDAV standard.
(2) Apple’s dependence upon Web 2.0 coding technology which continues to be a MESS to this day. (JAVASCRIPT! There, I scared you!)
I continue to use MobileMe to my advantage and will miss it when its gone, despite its bugs.
Meanwhile, we know ‘Cloud Computing’ in general has its own pitfalls and is NOT to be depended upon as 100% reliable or secure. The Internet has turned out to be an endless beta test.