> Why would my email and contacts be locked into iCloud? Don't ask me, ask Apple - they're the ones who're doing it :) Contacts was one of the things that Appl

> Why would my email and contacts be locked into iCloud? Don't ask me, ask Apple - they're the ones who're doing it :) Contacts was one of the things that Apple mentioned would be stored in iCloud at their talk a couple of ago. I'm not sure about email. One of the reasons your contacts would be stored in iCloud is so that they can work with Apple's (proprietary) new chat/message system; iMessages.