[alanfalcon]

My Google+ account was suspended because I had entered my "real name" as "Alan / Falcon" when I signed up since I was using the service as a kind of meta social network for online friends who I didn't know personally and wanted to keep that separation between my real identity and my meta identity. I'm sure if I'd omitted the slash I wouldn't have been suspended, and my name is definitely not really Alan / Falcon, but the whole thing left a very sour taste in my mouth. I wasn't able to use the network how I wanted so I just left the account in the suspended state, with a giant full screen pop-up appearing every time I followed a link from HN to a G+ post. Fortunately none of the other Google services I used were at all affected, including GMail or Blogger. But I went ahead and finally just updated my name to my real name on Google+ now to avoid a situation like this if Google decides to change its algorithm to something else and flags my permanently suspended account. Note that the account is still suspended so far as I know, pending review of the name change I submitted.

On a related note, I'm actually bummed that iCloud is free. I felt better about access to my data when I was paying yearly for MobileMe, and in fact started recently experiencing some issues getting Mail in Snow Leopard to recognize my iCloud account and finally ended up just upgrading to Lion to resolve the issue. (Yes, the $30 OS upgrade is cheaper than the $99 MobileMe cost, and I'm glad I upgraded because I'm enjoying using Lion, but I dislike how easy it is for Apple to say now that it's a free service they're free to stop supporting anything that isn't the latest iDevice or version of their OS if things happen to work out that way.)

[Drbble]

Apple had no problem killing MobileMe and screwing paying customers.

[oemera]

Why screwed? MobileMe migrated to iCloud seemlessly and you had to pay nothing. Plus the service now is even better for free! I don't see that people get screwed.

[kennywinker]

"Even better"... more like different. MobileMe and iCloud have a fairly different feature set. If you used one of the things that was in MobileMe but not iCloud... too bad.

[microtonal]

Right. And Apple provided paying MobileMe customers with 25GB of storage for free the first year. However, with the lack of an iDisk replacement, it's pretty hard to use up that space.

In other words, that what we did get, is pretty useless.

[rbarooah]

Sure but iDisk was little more than a generic WebDAV service, so you could easily replace it with a service from another provider with the money saved.