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MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Hello could anyone flag the post from a old account Ravlicz the post is iPod Touch iOS 4 issues if any mods could please remove that post there would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I have notified the forum moderators regarding your request.
Hi stedman1. Could you kindly do the same for me please? I would really appreciate some assistance with regards to a profile matter as well :)
Thanking you in advance,
Regards,
Pino
I've flagged your post for the Hosts.
Thank you Roger, really appreciated :)
In my case, Community Hosts answered the following
This does not appear to be a privacy issue with your existing username.
We will not be submitting a name change request for you.
I replied that, although I first didn't mentioned it, the request also implies for me a privacy issue.
They never replied back.
Why should I create another account to get rid of the username?
Like many, more and more I tend to think Apple's service is not what it used to be.
ASC uses Jive software, which is not an Apple product, and alias changes are a complex operation due to the databases involved. It has always been this way.
In this case, there's no point in refusing to make a change because of its complexity.
It's not a problem of the customer if Apple uses Jive software for ASC. Apple has the resources either to rebuild ASC as an Apple product or to instruct employees to handle such operations.
Yes quite, perfectly reasonable that Apple should rebuild/recreate the world's second-busiest technical forum just to suit you!
To suit the needs of customers.
Besides, there are other solutions and I mentioned one (2nd).
No need to be biased, Klaus1. Customer satisfaction says something?
Most Internet forums such as this do not permit changes to a user name / screen name once an account is created. Do you know of one that does?
iamsudo seems perfectly OK to me anyway, don't know why anyone wouldn't like it.
Apple has the resources either to rebuild ASC as an Apple product
For all we know they will, or are already doing so, but they're not telling anyone and are not about to.
I prefer to use the same Apple ID for ASC and the rest of Apple's ecosystem than create another one just for ASC. Like many, many people.
I'll be glad if anyone can point a community host to reconsider my case.
To my knowledge, the Hosts absolutely will not consider name changes in anything other than dire circumstances, so your request is unlikely to be heard.
I understand your motivation to do so, but for what it's worth I think it is a very bad idea to choose an ASC user name identical to, or even resembling your Apple ID, for a couple of reasons: First, an Apple ID is used so extensively that you should take all reasonable precautions to protect it from fraudulent use. For example, you can purchase thousands of dollars worth of Apple equipment with nothing more than your Apple ID and password. It can also be used to access any and all information accessible by iCloud including whatever personal information you may have, the locations of the Apple devices you are using, and other purposes we may not even know about yet.
Second, you can change your Apple ID as necessary to cope with future changes in your email address, or to thwart such fraudulent attempts to use it. Your ASC name and profile will follow these changes.
I know this is not the answer you are seeking, but I hope it helps you understand the complex factors involved in addressing what appears to be a simple and reasonable request.
I don't want my ASC username to be identical to my Apple ID.
I want to change the ASC username associated to my Apple ID to avoid creating another Apple ID only in order to register the ASC username I prefer.
Have a nice day iamsudo
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