Apple has removed the ‘beta’ tag from the iCloud homepage and given the login page a bit of a makeover. It is now allowing all MobileMe users to transition their accounts to iCloud, but signing up for new accounts is still not available.
Apple announced during its ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event on Oct. 4 that iCloud will go live along with iOS 5 on Oct. 12, after having been in beta for iOS and Mac OS X developers since WWDC in June this year.
Although current MobileMe users can transition their accounts to iCloud right now, they will have to wait for a few hours for the launch of iOS 5 and a software update to Mac OS X Lion in order to use iCloud with their devices.
Update: As pointed out by several readers in the comments below, while it appears to be allowing all MobileMe users to transition to iCloud now, the process fails at the last step, so it seems that we have a little more of a wait ahead of us before we can get our mitts on iCloud. Thanks to everyone who posted about this.
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works just fine :) greetings from switzerland
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Like"Although current MobileMe users can transition their accounts to iCloud right now"
That isn't really true. You can try to log in and it will offer to move your stuff but when you try it says that it is only available to developers at the moment. A few more hours stuck in MobileMe limbo I'm afraid...
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LikeBoris Thanks man. Updated the story.
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LikeI was able to login to iCloud but that's about all (I'm in Aus). Have also just downloaded and installed iTunes 10.5 which has iTunes in the cloud & WiFi syncing! Obviously not able to access any of those features yet though until my devices are updated to iOS5.
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LikeNot available in Australia either..... yet
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LikeDean Farrow Thanks.
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LikeNice if true, but here in GB I just tried to migrate my account and it was still denied to a ME account that wasn't bound to a developer account
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LikeDavid Pollard Thanks.
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Likehow do you get the apple id?
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