Apple Posts MobileMe-to-iCloud Transition FAQ

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iCloud is Apple’s new cloud service, which stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, and documents and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. iCloud integrates seamlessly with your apps, so everything happens automatically. iCloud will be free for iOS 5 and OS X Lion users. More information is available at www.apple.com/icloud

MobileMe Services – Whats happening to MobileMe?
The core services provided by MobileMe have been rewritten to work seamlessly with iCloud. MobileMe will no longer be available as a paid sync service. If you had an active MobileMe account as of June 6, 2011, your service has been extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge. After that date, the MobileMe service will no longer be available.

The document lists various MobileMe services and indicates whether they will be available or not in iCloud this fall.

MobileMe users will be able to keep their MobileMe email address when they sign up for iCloud. You’ll be able to keep your me.com or mac.com email address and move your MobileMe mail, contacts, and calendars, as well as your bookmarks, to the new service.

There will be Web access to iCloud Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Find My iPhone available at icloud.com this fall.

You will be able to continue publishing iWeb sites to MobileMe through June 30, 2012, even after moving to iCloud. With iWeb you can easily move a site published to MobileMe to another web hosting service and you should do so before that date. More details are linked.

You will also be able to continue using MobileMe Gallery through June 30, 2012, even after moving to iCloud, but you should be sure to save copies of all photos published to your Gallery before that date.

You will be able to continue using MobileMe iDisk through June 30, 2012, but should save copies of all files stored on iDisk before that date.

Syncing of Mac Dashboard widgets, keychains, Dock items, and System Preferences will not be part of iCloud, but will continue to be available for you to use until you move to iCloud or after June 30, 2012, whichever comes first. However those sync services will no longer be available in iCloud. Other MobileMe services that are not transitioning to iCloud (iWeb publishing, Gallery, and iDisk) will continue to be available through June 30, 2012.

If you have different accounts for iTunes and MobileMe, you will not be able to merge them into one. However, you will be able to move your MobileMe account (yourname@me.com) to iCloud and, if you choose, you can continue to use a different iTunes account for store purchases and iTunes in the Cloud.

iCloud includes 5GB of free storage for mail, documents, and backup. Purchased music, apps, and books don’t count against this 5GB of storage, nor do photos in your Photo Stream. If you still need more storage, you will be able to buy it.

You can also cancel your MobileMe subscription at any time and receive a prorated refund for the unused portion of your paid subscription. When you cancel, all MobileMe services, including mail and syncing of contacts and calendars, will stop working, and your data will be removed from MobileMe.

The full document can be viewed here:
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html

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