Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar

[Chakravartin]

JEBB wrote:
The big problem for me with all those references is that they are for Mountain Lion. My wife doesn't want to give up Appleworks so her computer remains at 10.6.8.

Well, that makes it VERY easy.

Your wife can't use iCloud on her Mac. Those instructions are only applicable to you.

If you want to share a calendar with her, try using Google calendars.

[deckeda]

Ah -- so I guess you're saying the directions are showing things missing/different from iCal but present in Calendar (what Mountain Lion calls iCal)? I would think that the basics are transferrable from iCal to Calendar --- after all, iCloud is still iCloud even if iCal is today "Calendar." Been a while since I used any of this so I can't exactly show you step by step.

What about this? Says it purports to be for "Lion and earlier" iCloud etc. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2513

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There's also the Google option, particularly if shared calendars are the goal. Google calendars can be integrated into iCal/Calendar pretty much like calendars from Apple's world. In fact, doing so could more easily isolate the calendar aspect from the rest of anyone's iCloud doings. Here are two examples:

My wife and I have a Gmail account neither uses for email. But including that account's login credentials everywhere (Macs, iPhones/iPads) either of us can add/edit/delete calendars without going to gmail.com in a browser and being all-online all devices stay synced. In other words you can use iCal as the interface for that.

Back when we were on 10.6 and 10.7 and Notes were integrated into Mail, we included that Gmail account in Mail. Now whenever either of us wrote a Note (for the shared account) the note would show up in the other person's Mail or on our iPhone's Notes app. Very much like synced Reminders today but without the iCloud part --- which is otherwise geared to individual, not shared data.

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I haven't read through any of the "how to share via iCloud" links ... but consider that an AppleID is intended to be "yours" and not "ours" unless multiple users are sharing an iTunes library or iTunes account. The latter is the ONE area where Apple acknowledges that dealing with more than one AppleID per device is workable.

[deckeda]

Chakravartin wrote:
Your wife can't use iCloud on her Mac. ...

LOL I totally forgot that! I was thinking that was one of the newer things that still reached bak to 10.6.8. but I must have been thinking of the App Store.