On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Benjamin Ragheb wrote: > On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Dave Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Presumably that would really hinder the usefulness of the devices as they >> would all have the same data after sync. If someone was intent on stealing >> your app they would most likely just jailbreak and download it from any of >> the iPhone apps sites that are out there. > > No, they would share an iTunes Store account but they would be treated as > different devices when syncing with iTunes. If a business purchased a set of > devices and synced them all to one computer, this is what they would get by > default.
You are correct, but I think you missed my point. The goal of syncing typically isn't just to get apps from the desktop to the device, but to sync other things as well like mail accounts, safari bookmarks, notes, calendars, app documents, etc. Having multiple users sync against the same desktop account is counter-productive because the likelihood of all of those users wanting the same mail accounts, bookmarks etc is exceedingly low. They would either have to suffer with that or enter all that information manually on each device and never have it useful on their desktop (as opposed to the desktop it was synced with). That just doesn't seem like a likely business piracy scenario. Dave
