On Jun 6, 2011, at 16:04, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now for international accounts we probably deserve it but are family member 
> really expected to buy separate copies of music and apps?

I never wanted to be in a position of rebuying anything, so everything has 
always been purchased on a single account. This has its own share of problems 
with syncing Devices, and pretty much means I have to sync every device myself.

I've found the tradeoff acceptable as the last thing I wanted to do was manage 
multiple accounts with multiple purchase histories.

The problem that I have now is that my AppleID necessarily has a fairly simple 
password (I have to type it frequently on my iPhone), and I have my iOS and OS 
X developer accounts on it as well. When it comes time to renew, I may create a 
second Apple ID just for those.

As far as I know, there is currently no way to combine accounts into one, and 
Apple does allow five accounts to cohabitate on your phone. This seems to be a 
magic number for 'family' as we see it all the time but I wonder what families 
with 4 or 5 kids do for mobile 'family plans'?

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