Apple's myriad of logins and passwords is so frustrating to me. I had an iTunes ID for years and can't use it for anything anymore because it is not an email address. It is such a pain in the ass to do anything. I have two apple ids, an icloud account and a game center account.
The edge cases (10% of users who would use multiple icloud/gamecenter accounts) are making things a huge pain in the ass for 90% of users who are the only person that uses their iphone for app downloads, icloud, music and game center.
I recently bough an ipod and set it up with a new apple id. I didn't have access to a computer at the time, and my god, it was such a pain.
Not only are the password requirements utterly stupid (at least one digit, one capital letter, you know it), I was continously prompted to set up three security questions to make my account safer. The one I'm just trying to set up so I can download some free apps (I didn't have any sort of payment options associated with the account at all!). Of course it isn't enough that I have to input my Apple password separately to every single app that might use it - Facetime, iMessage, iCloud backup. When I download a free app, it still prompts me to input my password. Why? What's the risk here?
All in all it took about 20 minutes only to be able to download a news app. Not exactly user-friendly.
Apple's myriad of logins and passwords is so frustrating to me. I had an iTunes ID for years and can't use it for anything anymore because it is not an email address. It is such a pain in the ass to do anything. I have two apple ids, an icloud account and a game center account.
The edge cases (10% of users who would use multiple icloud/gamecenter accounts) are making things a huge pain in the ass for 90% of users who are the only person that uses their iphone for app downloads, icloud, music and game center.