What will become of idisk

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You will find that using a database on a local hard disk is much faster than using the database on the iDisk. That, as I said to Cody, was news to me. Maybe I should have known better, but the past is the past.

Please remember that to protect your privacy, Apple does not maintain any data that MobileMe members have manually deleted from the MobileMe servers. This includes files deleted, whether normally or due to corruption, from the iDisk and messages deleted from MobileMe Mail.

Preserving data is the responsibility of each MobileMe member. Not good. Cody had earlier intimated that maybe that could help. Dan Moren: In terms of trying to recover iDisk files from a Time Machine backup, how would that be accomplished? There is a full year to prepare. Gallery was Apple's way of creating web-based photo albums of your photos for sharing with friends and relatives.

Once again, I can't see a need for it in the post-MobileMe world. Apple has already provided an "out" to those who want to share their photos to the world -- iPhoto supports sharing pictures to both Flickr and Facebook. I don't know what Flickr's membership is these days, but Facebook has well over million users, and a good number of them may be former or current MobileMe subscribers. Those two services are perfect for photo sharing, and I'd be willing to bet that the current number of photos hosted in Gallery is a tiny fraction of the number out on Facebook or Flickr.

Another reason I think Gallery is going away is the tendency for people to use iOS devices as a sort of electronic photo album. I don't know how many times I've seen my wife show off photos of our trips to friends or complete strangers using either her iPhone or iPad. It's a lot easier than telling them to go out to some long-winded MobileMe URL to see a gallery of pictures. As the author of several editions of a book on iWeb , I have a vested interest in the future of this Apple product.

However, the future just doesn't look all that bright for iWeb. The software hasn't been updated recently, and there is a lot of rumbling out on the Apple Support Forums about what will happen when MobileMe disappears. My guess? I loved iDisk, my own bit of webspace for hosting files.

I use it a lot for sending clients files using shortened links, or hosting images to be used on forums and my own site. Even if I go for the largest Dropbox it will still be cheaper than my current MobileMe subscription. Oh Apple, why have you forsaken your old customer base in favour of newer migrators and newbie iTunes users?