Sam Oliver
An AppleInsider reader received one of the emails on Friday, welcoming him to iCloud and advising him that his email address is the Apple ID he'll use to get his iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC set up.
The email advises users to "follow these instructions and you’ll be up and running in no time," but unfortunately the instructions page on Apple's website is not yet available, suggesting the email was likely issued prematurely during testing.
"Once iCloud is set up, it stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices," the email says. "For example, buy a song with iTunes on your computer, and it will appear on your iPod touch and iPad."
It continues: "When you snap a photo on your iPhone it will automatically be sent to your iPad. You can start creating a Pages document on your iPhone, and put the finishing touches on it from your iPad. There’s no need to dock or sync to your computer. With iCloud, it just works."
Apple is currently evaluating portions of the iCloud service in beta versions of iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X 10.7.2, and its official iCloud web page still advertises the service as "Coming this fall."
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Has it been determined yet if users who have multiple Apple IDs can use iCloud? I have a "family" ID that my wife and I share for iTunes purchases of music and apps so we can both use them, and we each have our own Mobile Me account for contact & calendar syncing. Am I out of luck when iOS 5/iCloud launches?
Has it been determined yet if users who have multiple Apple IDs can use iCloud? I have a "family" ID that my wife and I share for iTunes purchases of music and apps so we can both use them, and we each have our own Mobile Me account for contact & calendar syncing. Am I out of luck when iOS 5/iCloud launches?
It will work exactly as it does now with MobileMe. You can have separate Apple IDs for iTunes purchases and contact/calendar syncing.
I wonder about the very common scenario where you have an Apple ID separate from a MobileMe account. All of my app purchases are on my Apple ID, but the cloud syncing is with MobileMe. They really need to merge the two into one.
Just got one of these emails at my gmail account. I have been using that account for iCloud during the iOS 5 betas, so maybe that's why I got the notice early? As the article mentions, the setup link doesn't work yet.
I wonder about the very common scenario where you have an Apple ID separate from a MobileMe account. All of my app purchases are on my Apple ID, but the cloud syncing is with MobileMe. They really need to merge the two into one.
I have exactly the same situation...
...damn this waiting.