Hi all, it's my first post here.
I'm a marketing consultant from Italy and I'm considering to switch to Mac/iPhone to satisfy my personal/professional needs. Besides considering Apple products steps ahead in terms of design and ease-to-use (I love this "it just works" philosophy), I have some questions about icloud and syncing capabilities with gmail and my other account that I use at work...
If I use iCloud to sync contacts/calendars/reminders/pics/music and so on, do I need to open a new @me.com account? I don't need another email account, I use gmail as personal/professional account plus the account I use at work and I have an Apple ID (my gmail address
).
I don't want to go crazy with tons of email accounts and I cannot stop using gmail. I also need one unified and shared (both on iphone and mac, i don't care about web apps) address book with personal and pro contacts. On the same side I need shared reminders: they're fundamental for my job. I need both gmail and my professional account syncing between Mac and iPhone.
If I understand well, iCloud could be the "umbrella" to do this.
The steps are:
1) Import google contacts to icloud and my address book will be shared automagically.
2) Import reminders from gmail to icloud.
2) Configure both gmail and the other email account I use at work by exchange in Mail and iPhone (this will work without iCloud, right?).
Am I right? If I register an iCloud account using the Apple ID gmail address, can I use iCloud account without @me.com address just to sync contacts and caldendars between iDevices? This is actually my biggest concern about iCloud.
P.S.
If I had mistakes I'm sorry, my english is not perfect (yet)
I'm a marketing consultant from Italy and I'm considering to switch to Mac/iPhone to satisfy my personal/professional needs. Besides considering Apple products steps ahead in terms of design and ease-to-use (I love this "it just works" philosophy), I have some questions about icloud and syncing capabilities with gmail and my other account that I use at work...
If I use iCloud to sync contacts/calendars/reminders/pics/music and so on, do I need to open a new @me.com account? I don't need another email account, I use gmail as personal/professional account plus the account I use at work and I have an Apple ID (my gmail address
).I don't want to go crazy with tons of email accounts and I cannot stop using gmail. I also need one unified and shared (both on iphone and mac, i don't care about web apps) address book with personal and pro contacts. On the same side I need shared reminders: they're fundamental for my job. I need both gmail and my professional account syncing between Mac and iPhone.
If I understand well, iCloud could be the "umbrella" to do this.
The steps are:
1) Import google contacts to icloud and my address book will be shared automagically.
2) Import reminders from gmail to icloud.
2) Configure both gmail and the other email account I use at work by exchange in Mail and iPhone (this will work without iCloud, right?).
Am I right? If I register an iCloud account using the Apple ID gmail address, can I use iCloud account without @me.com address just to sync contacts and caldendars between iDevices? This is actually my biggest concern about iCloud.
P.S.
If I had mistakes I'm sorry, my english is not perfect (yet
)
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