Hi Geniuses! Sigh. I have Mac Mail and received a notice from Apple saying there will be no more

[emmadoggy]

7. Here's my understanding of it.

We have had a mac.com address which, yes, comes with your paid subscription to MobileMe (which previously had a different name that I can't remember at the moment.)

Last summer they announced that MobileMe would be discontinued/become iCloud. Unfortunately, it would only work with Snow Leopard or higher. Hubby and I were bummed because we were using a PowerPc mac and could not upgrade, so we ended up getting a gmail account to take the place of our mac.com account when it goes defunct in June. (We have it set up so that our gmail comes in through Mac Mail which is awesome since we were used to and really love Mail.)

Shortly after we did that, our beloved iMac (one of the last PowerPC macs) completely died out of the blue. Logic board. Enter new Lion iMac. Now we have to decide if it's worth it to keep the MobileMe/iCloud subscription. Haven't really looked into it yet. But yes, if you don't have a machine that is on the needed OS, then it is my understanding that you will lose your mac.com address.

And to your last point, yes, one of the things about Apple that really bugs me is how quickly they come out with new operating systems and how quickly they (and the tech world in general) discontinue support for older operating systems (even though they really aren't that old from a time standpoint). Not all of us can afford to constantly get the next new thing. The PC world doesn't seem to have this problem.Grrrr.