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Not able to sync keychains kinda of suck for lot of folks.

So now I guess Apple no longer has a solution for sharing video with friends and family? So glad I spent the time to post all my family videos on MobileMe. Am I now supposed to burn DVDs for everyone? I'm really disappointed Apple...

Definitely disappointing, in many respects. As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anything in iCloud that duplicates the functionality of Galleries, which IMO is a really slick way of sharing photos and videos with family.

Documents in the Cloud seems to be a poor substitute for iDisk, in that it's not initially available in 3rd-party apps and then must be specifically added by developers for it to work. Not that iDisk was really good, but I was hoping that they would improve it to the point of something like Dropbox instead of just killing it off.

I'll miss the keychain and widget sync as well.

Ger23, on 24 June 2011 - 09:57 AM, said:

Dropbox is good for syncing keychains.

@Tom Why wouldn't you use any of the other services iMovie supports (Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, or iReport)?

Agreed. iDisk has some shortcomings but is useful for storage and sharing. Hopefully Apple will rethink some of this.

JonathanCarr, on 24 June 2011 - 10:10 AM, said:

@JonathanCarr

Movie length is one issue... Also, can't watch FB, Vimeo or iReport vids via AppleTV. MM Gallery was a great solution.

Ger23, on 24 June 2011 - 09:57 AM, said:

I wouldn't be surprised to see this change opening up a lot of opportunities for third-party developers. With the Mac App Store, these sorts of applications will be pretty easy to find and evaluate.

I still want to know what they are going to be doing for people who have loyally paid for their services for years, and are now providing a lot of this stuff for free. I have been using the various incarnations of MobileMe for eleven years. This lack of recognition of people who have been using this service for years is rather disappointing.

I have several years worth of family photos and videos in the MobileMe Gallery as well, in addition to lots of files on iDisk and a couple of web sites on iWeb as well.

It seems odd that Apple is suggesting that these features (and thus, cloud storage) do not represent their core competency, so they're being dropped just as they introduce iCloud. Very odd.

Given this news, I don't want to add anything else to my MobileMe account. But I'm hesitant to migrate to some other service(s) right away with the possibility (hope?) that Apple may offer some alternative on iCloud. Any likelihood of this happening at all?

Assuming that Apple does NOT offer an alternative though, will MacWorld or someone on this thread offer alternatives?

It was really nice having a one-stop shop for these services. I'd hate to have to rely on 4 different services/companies/passwords to handle all these features, but if I must, which companies offer the best value for these services. I really, really, REALLY don't want to bother with Facebook. Any suggestions?

Dang it. Anyone have suggestions for an alternate website host? My website has significant sentimental value, don't want it to be lost.

still no mention of email aliases.

apple encouraged users to set up email aliases and allowed each user to set up 4 or 5 additional addresses to point to their main me/mac email account. will those also be disappearing or with apple grandfather in those who already have and use multiple email address aliases? it would be a huge pain in the ass if apple removes those additional addresses from each account.

archangel1701, on 24 June 2011 - 10:23 AM, said:

GoDaddy.com. Buy your preferred domain name and then add web hosting. They have good customer service if you need to get educated on how that works.

After that, uploading your website will be as simple as it already is when you upload to mobileme - and no one can take it away from you (on a whim).