The "right" way to handle multiple devices, accounts and the cloud?
Perhaps a bit premature, but I figure it's never too early to start planning.
Here's our current setup - I currently have four iDevices in the faily (three iPhones and one iPod Touch. All are syncing to the same Mac Mini, albeit with different logins (and different iTunes store ids). All four of these are kept in sync via Home Sharing so we have access to the music/apps/etc acquired by the others.
Enter the iCloud - how does this fit in? What's the *right* way to do this?
I can see two options:
1) Continue to utilize four iTunes store ids, sync them via Home Sharing and add four iClouds
Advantages
totally independent devices, users, etc.
Disadvantages
must pay for four "iTunes Match" services to access non-iTunes music on each of the four devices
will iTunes-purchased music automaticaly sync to iCloud if it is shared via Home Sharing (or only by the original purchaser)?
2) Use one iTunes Store id for all iDevices
Advantages
single point of acquisition and distribution for all devices
Disadvantages
need to find a way to merge IDs (is this even possible?)
Are there other advantages/disadvantages to these options? Are there other options? What's the easiest to set up and support? Any other thoughts?
Thanks in advance for your input.