> On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dave Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > If the app is being used by professionals in an office, where they are also > checking email and stuff on the iPad, that makes sense. But you could easily > configure it to not sync Mail accounts and configure them on the device. Or > they would probably all sync with their own computers and share an iTunes > Store account. > > If the app is being used in a non-office setting (warehouse inventory, > restaurant orders) then it's likely nobody cares about email and bookmarks, > etc. That's the scenario I was imagining. >
Just to be fair, people may do this even in an office setting . We got a tech support inquiry from a user who said his office mates all used a single Apple ID to purchase Air Sharing. In general, if there's a way for somebody to save a quid by doing something dishonest, people will do it, regardless of how inconvenient it is. Bt it does make more sense in those other settings. >> First, sending back the UDID is a violation of the new developer terms from >> Apple. > I didn't realize that. Live and learn. That's not quite true. Under the new terms, you can't send that kind of information to a third party. If you send it to your own site, that's fine. This is Apple's attack on analytics companies, who give away analytics service in order to sell information to advertising services. Apple is killing that market in order to bolster the value of iAd. On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Benjamin Ragheb wrote: > As somebody else pointed out, you can only authorized 5 devices on an account > at a time, so a business that wanted more would have to use a second account. > For a business it seems reasonable to consider each purchase a "five-pack" > and price accordingly. > Personally, I'd just ignore this entirely. Compared to the size of piracy overall, this is a negligible threat. Dave Howell Avatron Now hiring iPhone developers! Sotware, Inc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
