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Question

What will break if I upgrade?

by Oct 13, 2011 10:33AM PDT

I'd love to upgrade my iphone 4 to OS5, and my iTunes to 10.5. The problem is I need to stay with Snow Leopard because of some necessary PPC apps that won't run in Lion. I'm a MobileMe user, and have read some horror stories about the conversion to iCloud for some people. My question is- If I stay with Snow Leopard and mobile-me, and upgrade to IOS-5 what will work, and what won't?
THANKS!

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Don't know who you have been talking to,
by Forum moderator Oct 13, 2011 11:47AM PDT

but the whole iCloud thing went reasonably well.
IOS5 did not appear to break anything and those PPC apps will not run on your phone so you have no worries there.
Remember that MobileMe will be going away eventually.

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Don't want to upgrade to Lion, but still want IOS5
by moore2772 Oct 13, 2011 1:09PM PDT

Well, several music notation and production apps, as well as Quicken (none of the alternatives will do reports like I need them).
I've read that I can't even convert from MobileMe to iCloud without Lion. There are several parts of iCloud that work with the latest IOS 4.X, and I'm OK with not really having any more functionality for now. I've read that sync can easily get broken after the update. I know that some of it might work (and your post is encouraging) just by applying the update without a full-blown iCloud conversion; but I'd like to see if anybody is in the same situation as I am and has tried it. If Apple would just come out with an update to Snow Leopard for iCloud, as some news articles predicted is forthcoming, I wouldn't be concerned, and would just pull the trigger. (It does irk me that Vista is supported but Snow Leopard apparently is not...)
Thanks again.

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Yes, the Vista/Snow Leopard thing is annoying
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Oct 13, 2011 9:45PM PDT

After I downloaded the latest Lion update, I was given the option of joining the iCloud or not.

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