Hi Larry, Thanks for your post.
On 30/08/2011, at 11:49 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > Mac App store has no restriction, the iTunes app store does. That is what it > says. This jives with what Steve said and what I've seen bear out. This is > more about media than apps really which makes a lot of sense. This is sound it looks but I'm not so sure it’s the reality or at least the future. Also from the license: > (i) You may download and use an application from the Mac App Store (“Mac App > Store Product”) for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded > products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control. Which sounds good ... until family members want to have their own MAS accounts or MAS and iTunes accounts merge. Separately, for commercial use, we have: > (ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, you may > download a Mac App Store Product for use by either (a) a single individual on > each of the Mac Computer(s) used by that individual that you own or control > or (b) multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or > control. For example, a single employee may use a Mac App Store Product on > both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple > students may serially use a Mac App Store Product on a single Mac Computer > located at a resource center or library. For the sake of clarity, each Mac > Computer used serially by multiple users requires a separate license. Which seems contradictory (in itself)? It firstly says: "multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control" and "multiple students may serially use a Mac App Store Product on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library" but then it says "For the sake of clarity" Right! "each Mac Computer used serially by multiple users requires a separate license." I think this "a single employee may use a Mac App Store Product on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer" is where we are heading generally for home use as well, i.e. every family member will have to purchase a copy (of apps or music) for themselves but may use those purchase on any number of devices they use (and a device will be strongly associated with a user) > (iii) Use may require sign-in with the Apple ID used to download the Mac App > Store Product from the Mac App Store. This seems a bit strange, suggesting perhaps you may have to subsequently sign-in with the Apple ID used to download the Mac App Store product, I hope just for updates not for use etc. I wish Apple would be more open and clear about all of this. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
