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>There was a time, probably around 2012 (13 years ago) where I was hoping, wishing Apple would do better: MobileMe. I was in university, and was writing for the German Macworld (Macwelt) at the time. Dropbox was gaining more popularity, and the phone wars were just heating up. In my mind, it would have been a dream to have a proper, built-in cloud storage so I didn't have to manually sync my iMac and MacBook Air. Be careful what you wish for. MobileMe ceased to exist. It was a horrible slog to use, and the best part of this service was my shiny .com E-Mail address which I still have. iCloud is now fast, and every service in Apple's ecosystem is bundled under one platform. Instead of being an open, configurable environment with APIs, we have another closed ecosystem with the only goal to keep you inside.

Archive: https://archive.today/N246P From the post: >>There was a time, probably around 2012 (13 years ago) where I was hoping, wishing Apple would do better: MobileMe. I was in university, and was writing for the German Macworld (Macwelt) at the time. Dropbox was gaining more popularity, and the phone wars were just heating up. In my mind, it would have been a dream to have a proper, built-in cloud storage so I didn't have to manually sync my iMac and MacBook Air. Be careful what you wish for. MobileMe ceased to exist. It was a horrible slog to use, and the best part of this service was my shiny @me.com E-Mail address which I still have. iCloud is now fast, and every service in Apple's ecosystem is bundled under one platform. Instead of being an open, configurable environment with APIs, we have another closed ecosystem with the only goal to keep you inside.
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It's difficult for to understand people who keep their entire digital lives inside of a container of any sort. There's so much free streaming music out there that I haven't touched my collected stuff in years. I move photos off and archive them every month or so, and I've had (and cancelled) more email addresses in my life than I can count, with only a few old ones left because they're universally recognized by other services and there aren't problems getting things through like my personal domains can sometimes (by choice) experience. Contacts and calendars? I guess my life is uncomplicated, a few contacts in an old android-linked account, and that's it.

Then again, I knew people that ran their business off an oh.rr.com address...nope.

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Great article, thanks. I’ve been looking …slowly…at how to divorce myself from Apple. I already run a dedicated media server through plex, which was a good first step. The rest of our ecosystem is still Apple, though

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Lou’s of good tidbits.

I could never get racal to Fuckign work, hours invested never would sync. Just working local to local and still never worked.

Outside of this dumb cunt using docker everything seems like a solid path!