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Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They'v

by Firehed 14y ago

Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com). Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update.

jamroom 14y ago
I agree - just pointing out however that Exchange is not the _only_ way to get push email on your iphone. For example, if you are using Gmail, you can setup a filter to forward email to your iCloud email address. That way you can continue to use Gmail like you normally would, but get "Push" email on your iphone.
mendocino 14y ago
Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.
Osmium 14y ago
My @me.com address still works fine, I just now also have an @icloud.com pointing to it too. I believe that's the case for @mac.com as well. Don't worry, there'd be uproar if Apple took people's email addresses from them :) Personally, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I use my gmail as my main account, despite being far more comfortable with a service I can pay for (in the past, that was MobileMe) and know I can get customer service on the phone. Honestly, once Apple can show they've got their act together for more than a few years I'll probably switch...
- rdl 14y ago
  Why don't you just pay someone reasonable to host an ActiveSync compatible mail server or mailbox for you?
sbuk 14y ago
>Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I do. >They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com) And they all still work. >Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update. Since the aliases still work, as mentioned above, this is not an issue at all. Personally I prefer to use the me.com domain as it's short. It still works and the services that I use with me still work, I continue to get email from them. The same is true with .mac addresses.

by Firehed 14y ago

jamroom 14y ago

I agree - just pointing out however that Exchange is not the _only_ way to get push email on your iphone. For example, if you are using Gmail, you can setup a filter to forward email to your iCloud email address. That way you can continue to use Gmail like you normally would, but get "Push" email on your iphone.

mendocino 14y ago

Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.

Osmium 14y ago

My @me.com address still works fine, I just now also have an @icloud.com pointing to it too. I believe that's the case for @mac.com as well. Don't worry, there'd be uproar if Apple took people's email addresses from them :) Personally, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I use my gmail as my main account, despite being far more comfortable with a service I can pay for (in the past, that was MobileMe) and know I can get customer service on the phone. Honestly, once Apple can show they've got their act together for more than a few years I'll probably switch...

rdl 14y ago
Why don't you just pay someone reasonable to host an ActiveSync compatible mail server or mailbox for you?

sbuk 14y ago

>Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I do. >They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com) And they all still work. >Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update. Since the aliases still work, as mentioned above, this is not an issue at all. Personally I prefer to use the me.com domain as it's short. It still works and the services that I use with me still work, I continue to get email from them. The same is true with .mac addresses.