On 31 Oct 2011, at 13:46 , Neil Laubenthal wrote: > We have both bought apps on our IDs;
This is the mistake I was very careful to avoid, but I was able to avoid it in part because my wife is perfectly willing to say, “I want this app, download it for me” which may not be the case with most anyone else. I was always very conscious that the ID I used for purchases had to be a single ID if I wanted to be sure all the apps would work on all my iOS devices, even though the only device I had at first was an iPod touch. > I would love to combine both of those into a third ID so that we could have a > shared ID for purchases and separate IDs for mail/contacts/calendar. I have > to believe that there isn't any real technical reason this couldn't be done > which means that either there was a marketing decision against it or they > just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. I have to think that they know it’s a problem, I am less sure if they think it is a problem they need to solve or not. I can easily see Apple *not* allowing any sort of iCloud merging. As it is, right now, I have 25GB of iCloud (I got a temp upgrade of +20GB when I moved from Mobile Me) and then my wife and the two kids each have 5GB of storage, which is more than enough for their backups and their documents (Even my eldest who is backing up an iPad and an iPhone has plenty of room). the +20GB upgrade is $3.33 a month, so it seems like a no brainer I’m going to keep that, except I’m not sure how I would ever use that space. Putting things ON iCloud right now is a little odd. The only way to upload iWork documents is to go to iCloud.com, login, and then upload the files one at a time, and then I am only uploading text or Pages documents I don’t have 25GB of pages files. I will never have 25GB of pages files. My Photostream doesn’t count against storage, but I don’t see anyway to put other photos on iCloud, so what is that extra space for? > Would also be nice if the iWork document formats were aligned so that the > same document would open on both iPad and Mac…that would allow easy sync of > documents back and forth without having to do the download/upload sequence to > edit on the Mac. Of course . . .that would also keep from having a local copy > if it was only stored on iCloud I guess…a better solution would be to allow > iOS apps direct read/write to/from DropBox since it already has the > inter-computer sync built in. The disconnect between iCloud and the Mac is rather peculiar. -- And now, the rest of the story
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