Apple ID
Why email addres?
10 yrs Apple ID was just a 'name'
I even configured and registered my Apple iPod Touch 4G new only 6 weeks ago w/o using email address as Apple ID.
I upgraded to iOS 5 the 2nd week it was out and again, no email address.
Yesterday, Saturday, I restored by iPod to clear up hopefully some issue or other.
So now all my content that is under my old Apple ID.
You understand I sure don't want to change. I don't like change even.
And I sure don't think one of my email address is one bit secure or more secure.
No way.
Now it INSISTS and won't let me authorize my iPod (guess it isn't mine, seems like it is leased to me and is really not mine) so I can't use my old Apple ID.
Note: I use complex IDs and keywords and passwords generated by programs, not easy to type on an iPod or to remember even, but requires using a password manager to access and use them.
Easy to make a mistake, makes it hard to use otherwise.
I get really annoyed, frustrated, with such overbearing rules imposed and even changed mid-stream.
Draconian digital management of my property.
All I want to do, after spending 6 hrs loading the iPod is access it again.
Why didn't it ask for and switch to new ID then and there when it was restoring the iPod???
Isn't that more logical time and place?
Is to me. But what do I know, I just own it, used it as was for the last month just fine.
iOS 5 has been nothing but annoying, waste of time, and add insult to injury.
iPod touch, iOS 5, Windows 7 x64 3.2GHz