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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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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