yes they are saying, provided that
apple@icloud.com is not an existing account, that you could change your ID email to that. however they have nothing to do with forwarding email from yahoo etc
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no they are not. they are letting you change to a previously
unregistered @icloud.com. if the account already exists its already an apple id and you can't merge accounts etc
And this is the crux of the issue. It only solves the problem for HALF of the users forced to use two separate A-IDs: one for iCloud/services and one for Stores.
Do Apple think we're all stupid here, as they seem to imply –with all the bells and whistles surrounding this announcement– that this solves everyone's problems, when it quite clearly does no such thing.
There are millions (if not tens of millions!) who used an A-ID for electronic stores purchases (iTunes/iOS App Store)
before Apple released MobileMe. At that time, all MM users had the problem of the MM email address automatically being setup as its own A-ID. Thus users have had to manage TWO sodding A-IDs from that moment onwards.
Then they released iCloud and only
FULL EMAIL ADDRESS A-IDs were allowed, which compounded the first cock-up with the MobileMe issue. So then another huge group of users were forced to use TWO sodding A-ID's, yet again due to Apple's intransigence on the issues concerned.
It's now so ridiculous, as users are frequently lost on which A-ID they use for which service they have, with new things no doubt coming along to make everyone's life even more of a pain to deal with.
Get a grip, Apple, get a flipping grip – stop mucking users around with such stupid over zealous policies that make your customers lives a misery whilst using your products & services day-in day-out. GRGRGGRGRGRGGRGRGR!!!!
[doublepost=1509605953][/doublepost]To compound things, my stores A-ID is actually made
less secure by Apple's intransigence as well!
I have the newer TFA (Two Factor Authorisation) set-up for both my A-IDs, which is supposed to mean I get an Apple notification (i.e.
not an SMS, as these are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks) sent to my devices to complete sign-in each time. It is only meant to fall-back to SMS in emergencies.
However this does
not happen. As because my Stores A-ID ("
firstname.lastname") has my full email address iCloud A-ID ("
firstname.lastname@me.com") as the
Primary Email setup from years ago, it is forced to
always use SMS, so uses the more insecure method
every single time – and thus is effectively identical to the older less secure TSV (Two Step Verification) that always used SMS.
Brilliant Apple, truly brilliant thinking.
Do Apple actually realise ANY of these issues exist...? Probably, but they are obviously continually sticking their heads in the sand about it, because their attitude here is appalling.
