“When you use Apple’s new multi-device download feature, you will be limited to a total of 10 devices and computers, each authorized with the same Apple ID,” Erica Sadun reports for TUAW. “What’s more, once a device or computer has been assigned to an Apple ID, it cannot be reassigned for 90 days.”
“Naturally, this is bad news for anyone who shares an iPhone or other iOS device with a loved one and who switches around the Apple ID accordingly,” Sadun reports. “Once an Apple ID is authorized for media downloads, that authorization is going to stick for a few months at least.”
Sadun reports, “At some point, Apple is going to have to start seriously re-evaluating how real life meets Apple ID accounts, in terms of separating data within a family.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Beyond that, where’s our Fast User Switching/Multiple Accounts for iOS, especially iPad – a device which tends to be shared often even though most people don’t want to hand their kids, friends, etc. their email, Facebook account, etc.? a href=”http://nowsci.com/userprofiles/” target=”_blank”>iOS Jailbreakers have it. With iPad, Fast User Switching/Multiple Accounts is arguably more important for iOS than it is for Mac OS X – plus it would allow for multiple Apple IDs to be easily used per device. So, where is it?