The key part for me is to have all the other MobileMe info associated with my 'iTunes' account. I believe the quote from Jobs is that the iCloud will be the 'truth' WRT to our synced data, meaning all devices submit to iCloud as the authority for sync status. I want one account that knows the 'truth' for all my apps, music, media, data, contacts, calendars, etc.
The iCloud application includes the ability to send email.
When adding a new iCloud account, you have the option to setup a new Apple ID or use an existing one. If you choose to use your existing Apple ID and your Apple ID is not a @me.com one, the "Mail and Notes" service will be disabled by default upon initial setup. When you click on the checkbox to enable Mail, a dialog box will appear and asks you to choose an alias to setup a @me.com email account.
Once that's done a second iCloud account will show up as an inactive account with your newly created @me.com email address as primary email and all sync options are disabled in this account.
I've had an Apple ID that I've used for iTunes purchases for many years. I also have a MobileMe acct that I've used for syncing MobileMe info between devices. So, on my iOS devices I've had a me.com acct for syncing and another apple ID for AppStore/iTunes purchases. This has worked fine. With advent of iCloud it seems that a single Apple ID entered/provided during setup will be used to sync what used to be MobileMe info as well as media and other data, much of it from iTunes/appstore. So, is there a way to consolidate these apple IDs into a single acct?
It will continue to work in the same way as it does now. I have installed the iOS 5 beta and can confirm the following:
iCloud is essentially an enhanced MobileMe mail client including ota sync of mail, contacts, calendar, reminders, bookmarks, notes, photo stream, find my iPhone and storage and backup of data. The backup includes your camera roll, accounts, documents and settings. You can turn Back up to iCloud on or off. At the moment you can't use an existing MobileMe account with iCloud as it results in an error saying the account has not been migrated.
Downloading music, apps and books from the Cloud is handled via the Store apps not the iCloud client Therefore you can continue to use separate Apple ID's and it will just work.
Ok, so it sounds like everything will work, but we will lose the ability to have everything configured, downloaded and installed automagically on first setup.
Ok, so it sounds like everything will work, but we will lose the ability to have everything configured, downloaded and installed automagically on first setup.
Yeah, apparently there's even a secondary iCloud logon!
But like you say, the option to have a single identity for all these services would have been preferable.
I've already run into a similar problem trying to "consolidate" two id's.
The email address that I setup my first apple id and itunes account, I haven't had for some time, it was one provided by an ISP that I am no longer with. In april I had a 2 hour discussion with an apple customer relations person, when until then you used to be able to have your apple id for the itunes store send its emails (receipts, and info) to a different primary email address, this was my mobile me address, it worked fine the entire time I had used mobile me.
This all started after a system update sometime in april, when I got the message about an email conflict, and the mobile me would no longer be accepted. The only solution that the representative could find for me was to set up a gmail address and move my apple id to that email, since he couldn't get around the mobile me already being its own apple id. Which he himself couldn't understand why changing an apple id to a mobile me email address that had never had anything purchased at the itunes store or apple online store.
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The key part for me is to have all the other MobileMe info associated with my 'iTunes' account. I believe the quote from Jobs is that the iCloud will be the 'truth' WRT to our synced data, meaning all devices submit to iCloud as the authority for sync status. I want one account that knows the 'truth' for all my apps, music, media, data, contacts, calendars, etc.
The iCloud application includes the ability to send email.
The address it uses has to be a @me.com address.
I have one already, so it would be nuts if I had to forgo my bought and paid for @me address only to get another one.
So I am hoping that Apple will let me migrate that address.
I'd therefore hope they'd also let me move other MobileMe data, contacts and calendars etc.
But I am less worried about that data, because it sits on my Mac - and I can shove it up into the iCloud myself.
C.
When adding a new iCloud account, you have the option to setup a new Apple ID or use an existing one. If you choose to use your existing Apple ID and your Apple ID is not a @me.com one, the "Mail and Notes" service will be disabled by default upon initial setup. When you click on the checkbox to enable Mail, a dialog box will appear and asks you to choose an alias to setup a @me.com email account.
Once that's done a second iCloud account will show up as an inactive account with your newly created @me.com email address as primary email and all sync options are disabled in this account.
I've had an Apple ID that I've used for iTunes purchases for many years. I also have a MobileMe acct that I've used for syncing MobileMe info between devices. So, on my iOS devices I've had a me.com acct for syncing and another apple ID for AppStore/iTunes purchases. This has worked fine. With advent of iCloud it seems that a single Apple ID entered/provided during setup will be used to sync what used to be MobileMe info as well as media and other data, much of it from iTunes/appstore. So, is there a way to consolidate these apple IDs into a single acct?
It will continue to work in the same way as it does now. I have installed the iOS 5 beta and can confirm the following:
iCloud is essentially an enhanced MobileMe mail client including ota sync of mail, contacts, calendar, reminders, bookmarks, notes, photo stream, find my iPhone and storage and backup of data. The backup includes your camera roll, accounts, documents and settings. You can turn Back up to iCloud on or off. At the moment you can't use an existing MobileMe account with iCloud as it results in an error saying the account has not been migrated.
Downloading music, apps and books from the Cloud is handled via the Store apps not the iCloud client Therefore you can continue to use separate Apple ID's and it will just work.
My iTunes and App Stores (both OSX and iOS apps) are under one AppleID, while my MobileMe is under another.
When I sign into iCloud, if I use my MobileMe Apple ID, will it recognise my iTunes and App Store purchases and auto sync these to the device?
How iCloud works with a shared Apple ID. goo.gl/QmsSg
Ok, so it sounds like everything will work, but we will lose the ability to have everything configured, downloaded and installed automagically on first setup.
Yeah, apparently there's even a secondary iCloud logon!
But like you say, the option to have a single identity for all these services would have been preferable.
C.
The email address that I setup my first apple id and itunes account, I haven't had for some time, it was one provided by an ISP that I am no longer with. In april I had a 2 hour discussion with an apple customer relations person, when until then you used to be able to have your apple id for the itunes store send its emails (receipts, and info) to a different primary email address, this was my mobile me address, it worked fine the entire time I had used mobile me.
This all started after a system update sometime in april, when I got the message about an email conflict, and the mobile me would no longer be accepted. The only solution that the representative could find for me was to set up a gmail address and move my apple id to that email, since he couldn't get around the mobile me already being its own apple id. Which he himself couldn't understand why changing an apple id to a mobile me email address that had never had anything purchased at the itunes store or apple online store.