On 17 Sep 2011, at 10:31 , Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 00:36, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 16 Sep 2011, at 10:55 , Arno Hautala wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:30, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have the problem where I have an iPad that my eldest uses, and I want
>>>> him to be able to have iTunes gift cards I his own account and be ale to
>>>> buy apps, but I don't want to give him my apple id, especially since I use
>>>> it for all sorts of stuff at Apple.
>>>
>>> I doubt Apple will allow having multiple IDs being active on the same
>>> device at once.
>>
>> They always have done in the past. I doubt that will change.
>
> I'm confused then. I thought you were saying you couldn't do this, as
> in your example with your son. If you can have multiple accounts
> active, what's the problem with having gift cards on his account?
Because I don’t want to have to re-buy purchases for the other devices and I
don’t want to have to manage 5 different accounts and sort out which account
has what.
What I want is to have the main account and then have subordinate accounts so
that I can give limited access to those accounts (for example, can only
purchase off a gift card) but have those purchases all be grouped under the
main account.
For example
Account1
|- Account1.1
|- Account1.2
|- Account1.3
|- Accoumt1.4
Account1 has a credit card attached to it and can make any purchases. All those
purchases can be used by account1 and by 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4.
1.1 (say the wife) also has access to the credit card and can make any
purchases, “owned” by account1 and usable by 1.2 1.3, and 1.4.
1.2 (say elder son) can only access a gift card balance that is attached only
to 1.2 (Account1.1, 1.3, and 1.4 cannot access that balance). Purchases are
still "owned” but Account1 and can be used by the other accounts. Account1,
obviously, *can* access the gift card balance, but it defaults to using the
attached credit card.
1.3 & 1.4 (say younger kids) have no access to make purchases at all.
The most import an thing, however, is that ALL the accounts (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3,
1.4) can download and install updates to any installed apps, using their own
passwords.
As it is right now, I have “Account1” and everything else I have to manually
manage. I have to do the updates, track the gift cards, make the purchases,
etc. This gets to be a huge issue when you have 8 iOS devices in the house (3
iPads, 3 iPhones, 2 iPod Touches), some with older versions of the OS, and the
number of iOS devices is growing. The management gets to be a big headache very
quickly.
Also, currently, if someone brings me an iOS device because they need to
install an update, I have to enter my password. Now my password is cached for a
certain amount of time, and there is not easy way to tell when that cache
expires.
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