Hi All, I am planning to move our family from MobileMe to iCloud and would like any advice or suggestions you may have on how to make it painless, so I won't end up saying - oops I should have done X, Y, or Z. Currently, this is primarily for my wife and I but we have two boys moving into their teens so I need to keep that in mind. My wife and I share one MobileMe account so we can share Calendars and Contacts on all Macs and iOS devices etc.
We currently have the Family MobileMe deal with each of us having a @mac.com / @me.com account, but we don't really use Apple's email service - we have our own email server (see server details below). My plan is to setup one iCloud account for each person in the family BUT to only use my iCloud account on all our devices at present. The boys don't have iOS devices yet or use Calendar or Contacts yet so we can all share these. We have purchased media and apps from the iTunes Store using each of our MobileMe accounts (and the few international accounts I have) BUT the vast majority of stuff has been purchased using my account and we only do that now. My plan is to continue to use just one (my) iTunes Store account for purchasing media and apps from the iTunes Store going forward - it seems silly to pay for something more than once ;-) Does that sound reasonable? Two possible hitches and questions that I can see: 1. Our SOHO server is currently running Snow Leopard Server and I don't wish to "downgrade" to Lion Server. We currently store our family iPhoto and iTunes libraries on the server but usually access from client machines. My question is: What problems will this cause (if any) on the SL Server? We don't generally use the server directly but, as I mentioned, it does hold our iPhone and iTunes libraries. 2. My wife (bless her ;-) is still using her original iPhone 3G (at a glacial pace). We plan to get her a new iPhone but we would like to wait for a larger screen - hopefully the iPhone 5. My question is: What problems will this cause for her? Is there any way she can still get calendar (including reminders) and contacts on her phone? The lack of PhotoStream is not a problem. Sorry for the long post but any comments and advice or suggestion are most appreciated, as always. Cheers, Ashley. PS I know that Gallery and iDisk and other services will no longer function and I'm moving them elsewhere so that shouldn't be a problem ... -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
