rona

March 22, 2011 at 11:49am

Free would be nice, though I, too, just renewed my subscription... I would suspect that they would have lower limits on iDisk, and pay if you want more, and I would be okay with that. I suspect that I'm not the only person who doesn't really take advantage of all of the features of MobileMe, especially with Dropbox being free AND faster for filesharing.

CaptainV45

March 21, 2011 at 7:56am

While free would be welcomed, I wouldn't mind just paying less, like 25-50 instead of 99. I feel it is still worth something, just not what Apple is currently charging.

malber

March 20, 2011 at 7:34am

Well, for a company that is becoming more like Microsoft every day this would be a very un-Microsoft move.

Philodina

March 19, 2011 at 2:06pm

The issue is answering the question: Why did I (and many other people) get a DropBox account if there's MobileMe?

OK, basic DropBox functionality is free but beyond that it works more smoothly than Mobile Me.

seanesutton

March 19, 2011 at 7:22am

I have two fears.

One: I just re-uped my account and that would suck to loose the 100 dollars. Many people on hear are voicing the same concern.

I have a hard time believing that Apple will burn all the people that have paid for the service by offering the same thing as we get with the paid service for free. Maybe they will do a 2gig free iDisk for people or something like that.

Two: as a foreigner living in China, this would really suck. Services like Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, and any other great service that is offered and is free becomes illegal and cut off. The pay wall has been good for me here and I have no problem sacrificing speed for 100% connectivity.

The good news is the Mac-gensia has been going on about "free MobileMe" for months/years now. They have been wrong every time. This time does seem different though with the MM coming off the shelves.

Lastly, I thought it was interesting that everyone was reporting that it was going to go free at the iPad2 launch When it didn't happen nobody called the rumormongers out on it. They just launching into all the new articles about how "fast" the new iPad is.

Hopefully we are just suckers for the Mac news drain that feeds on these types of rumors and is hoping for web hits.

iMac.27

March 18, 2011 at 7:47pm

Free sounds great!
I wouldn't mind the $69 / $99 if it were a lifetime membership.
Apple should do this so they wouldn't have to pay back millions of people $69-$99

Just went with $69 and $99 price because I have No idea how much the family packs are..
Eiter way, One time fee would be a smarted move by Apple. no paybacks. If you've already paid, great, you never have to pay again.

jgreer3000

March 18, 2011 at 7:31pm

I love my mobileme subscription, but the iDisk syncing needs to be a lot faster.

cjaredscott

March 18, 2011 at 6:24pm

I love MobileMe, I have it, I just need faster download and upload times in iDisk, and more flexibility/features in iDisk. Right now I use SugarSync instead of iDisk. I REALLY want to use my 10 GB of iDisk Storage. I think a free plan would be good, but also have a paid plan.

iBod

March 18, 2011 at 5:19pm

My trial ended March 9th and I was all confused whether to sign up and pay for it given the rumours. Now i have until roughly April 9th (30 days) before my stored stuff gets wiped or I do sign up and pay and risk the no refund approach that could be adopted with any changes to the service.

As for what they offer in future, everything currently available, plus a bigger iDisk capacity, easier or even full functionality with iPads etc, a choice of email address options....

donahue4

March 18, 2011 at 4:59pm

I just renewed my subscription, lame. But, free for the future would be awesome!

therealpinky

March 18, 2011 at 4:41pm

i would really hate if apple just started handing out @me.com email addresses i think that is something that should still be payed for just my thought.

robinthe4th

March 18, 2011 at 4:31pm

I've been happy with MobileMe, and free would be great!

D0GG

March 18, 2011 at 4:21pm

I actually like MobileMe as is. Wouldn't mind a fast file transfer on the iDisk, but other than that I am pretty happy.

What I am a little ticked about (if it becomes free) is that I just re-upped for the year on my account. I hope that Apple has something to pay back the users that have shelled out the cash for something that is going to become free.