Are you one of the few, the proud (?) who haven’t made the leap to OS X Lion, let alone Snow Leopard 10.6 yet? If you also happen to be a MobileMe subscriber, Apple is planning to entice you with a free DVD of one so you can get to the other.
Macgasm is reporting that Apple appears to be sweetening the deal for MobileMe subscribers who still haven’t made the move to iCloud. The last remnants of the once mighty MobileMe empire come crumbling down on June 30 this year, but to lure you off Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, Cupertino is offering one of the upgrades free for the taking.
“Get your Mac ready for iCloud,” the MobileMe web page reads. “To take advantage of the great features of iCloud, your Mac must have OS X Lion installed. If you are running OS X Leopard, you will need to install Snow Leopard first and then purchase Lion from the Mac App Store.”
To ease in this transition, Apple is giving away free DVDs of Snow Leopard (a $29 value) to MobileMe subscribers who log into their accounts and fill out the form found at this link. “After you have installed Snow Leopard on your Mac, run Software Update from the Apple menu to get the latest version of Snow Leopard 10.6.8,” step one of then process explains.
With your system finally updated to Snow Leopard, the hard part comes with step two: Paying $29.99 for OS X Lion from the Mac App Store. But really, it’s the easy part -- we’ve been running it since launch day and you won’t regret it, folks. Finally, move your MobileMe account to iCloud and call it a day.
The free Snow Leopard offer reportedly expires a couple weeks ahead of MobileMe (on June 15, 2012), so be sure to grab your freebie while it lasts.
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MacAddict4Life
April 20, 2012 at 2:10am
I don't understand what the complaint is? If your Mac is too old to be supported by Lion, of course you need to stay on Snow Leopard. If you never went from Leopard to Snow Leopard, well your MobileMe parting gift is the update.
You are not losing anything you paid for. Your subscription to MobileMe was already extended for free, and now the service is being shut down.
Where is all of this vitriol coming from?
rgrein
April 22, 2012 at 4:28pm
Well, I'm not dripping with it but I am annoyed. I have an extensive Apple presence here at home (2 desktops, 3 Macbooks, a couple terabytes of storage, 2 iphones, 2 iPads and a couple ipods) and we practice extensive reuse. So my 9 year old G5 went to my wife, I got my daughter's Macbooks, etc. A 4 year old Macbook that can't run Lion, and frankly I'm not in a position to upgrade everyone every 2 years. That's an old Windows trick... . Anyway, the problem is in several areas. First, there appear to be no technical reasons for the requirement. If you look long enough, you can find instructions on the Apple support site to access their limited support for pre-lion IOS.
Why is this a big deal? Sync. I have an iPhone and an iPad and the story was that I would be unable to sync accounts after moving to iCloud. That's dumb beyond belief, that I could do it with 10 year old XP but not with the latest but one version of OSX! Then, with everything Apple saying that I was SOL without replacing hardware I dug a few days and discovered I could continue to sync my devices quite nicely. I just wouldn't receive much instruction or support.
So it's not that there's no support, it's that we were all given bad information. It's the first major problem I have had with Apple in 20 years. I hope this is an aberration, not an indicator of things to come.
pudge74
April 19, 2012 at 9:17pm
Winski, I'm with you 100%
I'm tired of hearing you brag about how much money you make year after year You spiting in my face. I was told oh you'll be fine . Well some of that really nice money you made. I f-ing spent!. I stand behind you product ,but I'm done bending over . It's time you taste your own medicine. You need to fix this issue IMO! Not me for once. I cant even afford a new cord for my phone, and on top of that. Your taking back Apps. I paid for now? I would love to hear a solution to you trying to rob loyal customers. where i live it wrong, but hell you just put people like myself out of work. I'm calling you out on this one. You wanna build some big what? Lion sucks .I love my snow, and it B.S of you ,and you small you know to make us. There goes my house ,and car. For what? The love of what I
have for great technology. You rich folks need to understand life isn't grand for the real working man,and women Oh my Apple got hacked by the way. I want whomever to know they do ,and quit using it as a sales pitch. you have my address fix these issues please.Thanks again for giving use the yearly shaft
Winski
April 19, 2012 at 6:48pm
SO, LET'S SEE...
Papa bear is offering to UPGRADE all the older Macs out in the wild to Snow Leopard to get everyone on a platform that's 'close' to reality of the hardware that's 'current'... THEN, as a VERY FIRST STEP of the process to move over to iCloud, the VERY FIRST THING that Papa Bear wants these folks to do is UPGRADE TO LION???
NO!!!
I stayed on SL because you ass-clowns told me that my Mac didn't have enough horsepower to run Lion. NOW, you want folks with hardware OLDER THAN MINE to upgrade to Lion?? Are you people nuts?? Steve was right.. you clowns SHOULD be ashamed of yourselves.. this plan is lunacy ...
You OWE your user base a plan - not a meat grinder... idiotic.
