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But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it h

But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it has resulted in untold numbers of people with numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of them.

batista 14y ago
Which you can merge to the same account [edit: actually, no, you can just use in tandem]. But, really, how would that be different if the user ID was a random name? People could still have "numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of them".
- philo23 14y ago
  As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however. If it does exist, do you happen to know the URL as I've been looking to do this for a while.
  - batista 14y ago
    >As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however. Checking again, that feature does not exist. I was certain I has seen info about doing so, but the official Apple docs say "nope".
- kalleboo 14y ago
  You can't use them in tandem anymore if you want to enable automatic download. Then iOS locks you to one account for 90 days.
ralfd 14y ago
I actually think this is a good idea. An email address is unique and easy to remember for the user. The stupid stuff is the following: This was not always required. I think there was a transition period were it was not enforced but only advised on the register page. And also somewhat ambigous like "Enter here your Apple ID username eg. BruceWayne@mac.com" I know two people who entered their (company) name in such a way, but without really having a dotmac address! And then dotmac was changed to Mobile Me and even though me.com was retained for iCloud I couldn't use an "old" Mobile Me email-adress, which was sad because it was a nice address with the initials of my name, but had to make a new me.com iCloud account/address. Really Confusing.

batista 14y ago

Which you can merge to the same account [edit: actually, no, you can just use in tandem]. But, really, how would that be different if the user ID was a random name? People could still have "numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of them".

philo23 14y ago
As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however. If it does exist, do you happen to know the URL as I've been looking to do this for a while.
- batista 14y ago
  >As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however. Checking again, that feature does not exist. I was certain I has seen info about doing so, but the official Apple docs say "nope".
kalleboo 14y ago
You can't use them in tandem anymore if you want to enable automatic download. Then iOS locks you to one account for 90 days.

ralfd 14y ago

I actually think this is a good idea. An email address is unique and easy to remember for the user. The stupid stuff is the following: This was not always required. I think there was a transition period were it was not enforced but only advised on the register page. And also somewhat ambigous like "Enter here your Apple ID username eg. BruceWayne@mac.com" I know two people who entered their (company) name in such a way, but without really having a dotmac address! And then dotmac was changed to Mobile Me and even though me.com was retained for iCloud I couldn't use an "old" Mobile Me email-adress, which was sad because it was a nice address with the initials of my name, but had to make a new me.com iCloud account/address. Really Confusing.