Apple Completes MobileMe Shutdown

Apple today hung out the "Closed" sign for its MobileMe service. MobileMe has actually been closed since June 30^th, but Apple left the iDisk and photo gallery services active until today, so users could download any data they wished to keep.

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With today's notice, Apple has turned the lights off and closed the doors on MobileMe permanently. In its place, Apple offers iCloud, which has a big advantage in being a free service, but lacks some of the cool capabilities that were part of MobileMe.

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