Chapter  14

From MobileMe to iCloud

Leading up to Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in 2011, Apple announced its new iCloud service, and during WWDC Apple provided some additional information about iCloud (and MobileMe). iCloud will provide many of the features that are currently available with MobileMe. Unlike MobileMe, iCloud will be free. In this chapter you will learn

  • What iCloud is and what services it provides
  • How to set up your Mac to use iCloud
  • Getting an @me.com e-mail address for use with iCloud
  • Transitioning from MobileMe to iCloud

NOTE: At the time of this writing, iCloud is not generally available, so details here are based on prerelease announcements and early beta software features. We feel that including this ...

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