Why can't we give away apps as a gift?

Me and my husband are in the middle of a dilema right now, our apple experience began with a MacBook Air we bought for me to work, i created the Apple account with my email. Then we bought an ipad for my husband, but he used my account to keep the devices syncronized, music, apps and stuff. Then he got an iphone, and the same thing happenend, he wanted to have everything from the other devices.


The problem comes now, we got an Iphone for me and i can't use my account because he will no longer have access to his apps, but i don't want any of them.


If my account payed for an app, is mine, so why can i make a full tranfer of the apps to his account because i won't use them. It's like a gift, my account bought it, but is going to be used only by his new account.


If you buy a music CD and you are not going to use it anymore, you can give it up as a gift to someone else and it's not breaking any copyright law.



The options we know are limited, i have to create a new account with a new e-mail, wich i don't like, and have to change everything in the devices i use, or take the account with my e-mail but my husband looses everything. We've seen some examples of transfering apps, but for updates it still needs the old account so....


Any useful idea or messages of condolences will be received.

Posted on Dec 10, 2013 3:32 AM

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Dec 10, 2013 3:45 AM in response to Velvet17

Digital media (apps and songs) are different than physical media (CD, however contains digital media).



distribution of digital media to other parties than the purchaser is pirating media.



To "gift" someone an application, give them an App Store (or Itunes, all the same account source) gift card to buy X application.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act




You cannot literally "give" someone digital content, it is copied to X, and therein is the binding problem, non-transference of personal (your) apps and content.


Or, how do you give someone something that you BOTH end up having (you dont),......ergo the legal issues, etc.

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