COMPUTER MASALA: Mobileme

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Mobileme

Macgasm first noticed that Apple has begun offering free copies of Mac OS 10.6 (”Snow Leopard“) to paid MobileMe subscribers. The free Snow Leopard offer was presumably initiated to encourage people to upgrade to iCloud before MobileMe is shut down on June 30th, 2012.Neither my wife nor I — both long time MobileMe/Mac.com subscribers — received the invitation. But we’ve both already made the switch to iCloud, so my working theory is that only MobileMe laggards who haven’t yet made the switch to iCloud are getting the invitations.The first P.C. Richard opened on September 26, 1909 in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. This particular store sold hardware and was run by Peter Christiään Richard, an immigrant from Holland. The first electric appliance the store sold was an electric iron. His son, Alfred J. Richard, would spend all of his time helping his father, as he quit school at the age of fourteen for the sake of the store, which at that point was located in Queens. Within time, A.J. would become the head of the store, and would prove to be highly successful in persuading people to buy appliances. As the years progressed, his sons would aid him with the business, as they expanded to other locations. To this day, the chain is still run by the Richard family, as A.J. himself would serve as chairman well into his 90's. On December 28, 2004, A.J. Richard died at the age of 95.