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    Apple Bids Farewell to Paid Cloud Service MobileMe

    By Samantha Murphy | Mashable – Sun, Jul 1, 2012

    retired on Sunday its paid cloud service , following a several year process led by former CEO Steve Jobs to pack up the product for good.

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    The company announced last year that it would be closing MobileMe and urged users to move their accounts to , Apple's first big push to unify its product lines with online storage.

    For MobileMe users who haven't yet moved their files and photos to iCloud, data can still be retrieved -- Apple notes on its homepage that it has extended the deadline to move content. However, Mac users without memory to support OS X Lion needed to run iCloud will be unable to make the switch.

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    The move to shut down MobileMe was years in the making. According to a Fortune report, Jobs that the rocky launch had the potential to "tarnish" the brand during the 2008 launch of the 3G iPhone.

    In October 2011, the company rolled out iCloud, which is free to users with an iOS 5 device, as a part of a major initiative to reboot and rebrand the service.

    Are you surprised it took this long to shutter MobileMe? Were you a user of the service? Let us know in the comments.

    BONUS: How iCloud Works

    Login Page

    The iCloud login page should look familiar to former MobileMe users. The big difference: Linen.

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