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The iCloud homepage drops "developer beta" tag ahead of launch

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The rotation of the metallic highlights with mouse movement is just gorgeous when you don't quite notice it. But having figured out that it's responding to me, and having played with it for far too long, now it's just visually distracting.

I can't wait to see what the inside of the site looks like.

I've only spent a decent amount of time using contacts and calendar; they're deceivingly close in performance and feel to their native counterparts.

A little like the spotlight effect on Chrome's tabs. It took a while for me to notice it at all, but now I find myself idly playing with it.

I think it's my bad and let's not blame Apple for it. They haven't launched it publicly yet. I just noticed they have taken away the developer beta tag and since I have a developer account and used to work for me (and now works for my old mobile me account) I assumed it works for everyone. I didn't have a way to test this on my own. But seems from comments you can log in and it asks you to have Lion or iOS 5. Lets wait for iOS 5.

Edit: Fixed title to reflect the same.

Let's

It says it's available to Lion users, but my system still has all the MobileMe sync stuff and no iCloud connectivity. Rumor has it that we have to wait for OS X 10.7.2 before getting access to iCloud. :/

It's not a rumor; it's a fact. iCloud requires iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7.2.
http://help.apple.com/icloud/index.html?lang=en#mmfc0efea4
The actual rumor is that 10.7.2 will be released tomorrow alongside the confirmed releases of iOS 5 and iCloud, and I imagine that bet's fairly safe.

Looks like it's using jQuery and SproutCore

iTunes 10.5 is now available[1]; it's probably a good idea to download it if you're waiting to update to iOS5.
[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/

I logged in and it tells me to setup my devices by going to this url which can't be found: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup

I have a developer license, and I was expecting to see a few more Apple apps in the iCloud homepage. Specifically Reminders, Notes, & Photos.

Reminders are part of Calendar; Notes are part of Mail. (And "Photos" probably won't be a standalone app, since they're taking great pains to distinguish that what iCloud syncs is "your photo stream", not "your photos.")

I'm able to login with my Apple ID but have no way of turning it on in OS X Lion yet as far as I can tell.

Wait until they roll everything out. You should get a Lion update, an iOS update, an iWork update and an iPhoto update sometime today. iTunes was already updated yesterday.

Hmm.., it looks like they don't support FF3.6, this will have to wait until I get home.

Or, you know, stop using a browser that's 3 years old.

serious issue: didn't let me login with my apple id, wanted me to update my profile to have my email as my id. i had half a mind to give but still thought would give it a try. when i went to the the apple id site to associate my email to my id, the thing didn't work. just didn't work.
did they not test?

man.. thats one beautiful website

what timezone picker is that?

I liked the part where the instructions sucked and the "Learn More" link was broken.

I like the part where the setup link goes to the 404 page

Pathetic. Should earn negative credibility. If that no-op page stole my password, poster should be killed.

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