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Apples MobileMe is dead -- but you can still retrieve your files

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An ignominious end to one of Steve Jobs' biggest embarrassments

FORTUNE -- "Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Steve Jobs asked the team that created it shortly after a disastrous debut in 2008 that nearly ruined the launch of the iPhone 3G.

Having finally received a satisfactory answer, Jobs then asked (according to Adam Lashinsky's 2011 account in Fortune), "So why the fuck doesn't it do that?"

With that, MORERead more: Apples MobileMe is dead -- but you can still retrieve your files