Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> squawked out on Tuesday 30-Aug-2011@06:41:33 > > On 30/08/2011, at 1:54 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> squawked out on Monday 29-Aug-2011@20:43:29 >> >> Er, what are you talking about? All App Store purchases are usable on ALL >> your iOS devices. If you buy angry birds for $0.99 and you own 47 iOS >> devices then you can run Angry Birds on all 47 iOS devices for the same >> $0.99. > > IANAL but: > >> When you first acquire App Store Products, as defined below, (excluding >> products acquired from the Mac App Store) or iBookstore Products, as defined >> below, through the App and Book Services (collectively, “Eligible Content”) > ... >> >> (i) You may auto-download Eligible Content or download previously-purchased >> Eligible Content from an Account on up to 10 Associated Devices, provided no >> more than 5 are iTunes-authorized computers. >> >> (ii) An Associated Device can be associated with only one Account at any >> given time. >> >> (iii) You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only >> once every 90 days. >> >> (iv) You may download previously-purchased free content onto an unlimited >> number of devices while it is free on the App and Book Services, but on no >> more than 5 iTunes-authorized computers. >> >> The above terms (i) to (iv) do not apply to App Store Products. > > > No more than 5 authorised computers, so I guess up to 10 iOS devices?
All of that is about music and applies to the DRMed music. I’m surprised it is still in there at all. > Although the last sentence seems to negate all the above? App Store Products? The last sentence negates it completely for purchased apps, which have no limit. In fact, Apple specifically said that buying Lion once allowed you to install it on “all your computers”. Not “up to 5 (or 10) of your computers” but *all*. I know that it at least *WAS* possible to install a purchased app on 12 iOS devices because I’ve done it. >> The software _IS_ DRMed, and yes, you will have to login to your account in >> order to get updates. But you do not have to stay logged in to run the >> software (at least notes far as I can tell). > > So are you saying you cannot take an app downloaded from the Mac App Store > and install it on another Mac and run it? That would be news to me. I am pretty sure that if it is a paid app and you move it to a machine where you haven’t used the itunes account you bought the app with it will come up and ask you to login to the Mac App Store. An exception to this appears to be the Lion Installer. However, the Xcode installer will come up and complain about the MAS account (I know this because someone posted to a newsgroup complaining that the Xcode they downloaded on his bosses machine wouldn’t install on his development machine). > I wonder what happens if you copy and app onto a Mac - does it warn you that > it is new? Pretty sure. > I think people would choose this option (lockdown except MAS) for simplicity > and security and, for example, for children (no unauthorised or no adult > apps, or apps that can access adult content. > >> >> I don’t understand the distinction you are trying to make here. I have 5 >> macs currently that can run the Mac App Store; “And Yet it Moves” runs on >> all five of those Macs, including the MacBookPro when it is not connected to >> the Internet. > > Sorry, I was referring to the fact that people in my house may want to have > their own iCloud accounts (especially if iCloud merges with iTunes), for > example so they can sync their own info, photos, have their own account > balances, gift card allowances etc. > > I manage all the Macs in our house but I would hope we could run with > different iCloud accounts but still share apps etc. Oh. Right. That’s going to be fun. > I guess I am really wanting family iCloud/iTunes accounts where magic number > is also much greater than 5 or 10 because with two or three devices (inc. > iOS) each, and a server or two (old Macs never die they just become servers), > it's easy to get to 10+ Forget about the 10 (or the 5) those numbers only apply to the old DRMed iTunes music tracks. -- 'It's always a good thing to let a few tales spread, you know. Pour encouragy le-poor encoura-to make everyone sit up and damn well take notice.' --Eric _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
