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>You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account. This is what Apple wa
by nuttendorfer 14y ago
>You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account.
This is what Apple wants.
- arrrg 14y agoNo, this is not what Apple wants. They make (practically) no money from people buying more apps. It’s just a bad user experience they haven’t fixed (hopefully yet). Apple’s main goal is and will always be selling more devices. That’s how they make money. If they do sell more devices (as was the case here) it is not in their best interest to make you jump through hoops. You fail to understand at a fundamental level what kind of company Apple is. (By the way, this is not what Apple wants for the simple reason that you already don’t have to repurchase anything. You can put apps on any and all devices you control, the problem is just that you have to transfer them using iTunes – and that’s a train-wreck Apple seems to be unaware of. But it is possible.)
- drivebyacct2 14y agoHaving one account = one person = one device is clearly lucrative for Apple.
- arrrg 14y agoAgain: That was not the issue here. You are lumping another (very real) issue together with the issue discussed in the post.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoI'm sure that's correct, but in this case OP is mistaken. He failed to setup those new iPods correctly - You can use different account for iMessage, Mail and App Store. He must enter his own account in the App Store section of those new Touches and leave iMessage and Main empty (or, create new account for his/her children). Now, those kids can't see his/her Mail and iMessages, and even if try to buy something from the App Store they can't (they need the parent's password).