![]() ![]() We did have to uncover settings and fathom out what was going on, though, because Apple helpfully changed our email address. Subscribe to AppleInsider on YouTube Apple changed your email address It's long enough ago that we cannot remember what we had to do to say, "Apple, no, we're keeping our addresses." In each case, though, the battles were 8 and 12 years ago. If you joined iCloud any time after the dust settled on September 19, 2012, you got and never had to know the difference.īoth and users did have to know. All of the changes were cumulative, too, so if you hung on to your address from all that time ago, you still have it - and an one. However, if you had one, you were using MobileMe, and you moved to iCloud before that Augdate, you got to keep Alternatively, if you created a brand new iCloud account before September 19, 2012, then you'd have both and not making this up. Things are a little woolier about when you would have started to get an address. To be exact, you have still got an address because you had it and were actively using it on July 8, 2008, plus you kept your MobileMe account and - there's more - you moved to iCloud before August 1, 2012. If it ends in you got it during the briefer opportunity between then and 2012. If your email ends in then you got it somewhere between 20. Mac, and MobileMe before you got to today's iCloud. This email address was once championed by Apple as part of its iTools service back in 2000, and if you still have one, you have some bruises from the days of iTools. Now while it's only that part of the world which is extremely geeky, you're actually telling them that you were an Apple user on or before July 9, 2008. ![]() It used to be that if your email addressed ended in you were telling the world that you are an Apple user. Nothing before iCloud truly worked, but MobileMe was the one that saw Steve Jobs exploding inside Apple. It isn't a surprise that Apple would rather you thought of its successful iCloud service more than you did its quite disastrous predecessors, including MobileMe. ![]() They may date all the way back to iTools and the iBook SE, but if you've got one of those addresses, you're probably hanging on to it no matter what Apple does. Apple would rather you forgot Mac.com or me.comĪpple is steadily removing even references to the old and slightly less old addresses from its support documents. ![]()
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