iCloud vs. MobileMe: What We Might Lose and What We Might Gain

iCloud vs. MobileMe: What We Might Lose and What We Might Gain -

Are you a long-time MobileMe subscriber and allured by the niceties that iCloud will bring, but are wondering what you will miss after switching over? While Apple has yet to release their plan of action for switching users over to the new service and a lot of users are wondering what will change come this fall. We hope to answer some of those questions by doing a side-by-side comparison of iCloud and MobileMe.

The chart below is based off of the information that Apple has already released to the public regarding both features.

	iCloud	MobileMe
iTunes Music Purchase Restores (Music, Apps, iBooks)	Yes	No
iTunes Purchase Syncing to all devices (Music, Apps, iBooks)	Yes	No
iTunes Match	Yes	No
Photo Storage	Yes, 1000 photos through Photo Stream	Yes, MobileMe Gallery, uses overall MobileMe storage allotment
Photo Syncing	Yes	Yes, iPhoto-to-iPhoto only
Document Storage	Yes	Yes, with iDisk
Document Syncing	Yes	Yes, with iDisk
Online Document Access	No	Yes
iOS Backups	Yes	No
Contacts Sync	Yes	Yes
Online Contacts List	?	Yes
Calendar Sync	Yes	Yes
Online Calendar	?	Yes
Email	Yes, 5GBs Shared with total allotment	Yes, Shared with overall total MobileMe allotment
Online Email Client	?	Yes
Bookmark Syncing	Yes	Yes
iDisk	No	Yes
iWeb Sites	No	Yes
Back To My Mac	?	Yes
Find My iPhone	?	Yes
iChat/AIM Accounts	?	Yes
Online Photo Gallery	?	Yes
PC and Mac Synchronization	?	Yes
Total Storage Allotment	5GB for mail, documents, Camera Roll, account information, settings, and other app data	20GB Shared among all services
Storage Upgrades	None	20 and 40GB allocations
Prices	Free; $25 per year for iTunes Match	$99 per year for single user / $149 for family

(Via Mac|Life all.)