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MobileMe (formerly .Mac and iTools), until June 30, 2012, was a subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. All services were being gradually transitioned and replaced by iCloud and the service ceased as of June 30, 2012, with transfers to iCloud available until July 31, 2012. After that date, all data was deleted, and the email addresses of accounts not transferred to iCloud were marked as unused.
An early attempt by Apple with online services was eWorld, which ran from June 1994 until March 1996.
Originally launched on January 5, 2000, as iTools, a free collection of Internet-based services for users of Mac OS 9, Apple relaunched it as .Mac on July 17, 2002, when it became a paid subscription service primarily designed for users of Mac OS X. Apple relaunched the service again as MobileMe on July 9, 2008 at WWDC 2008, now targeting Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone, iPod touch users, and following its April 2010 release, also iPad users.
On February 24…