Q: iCloud family purchases
I am a cool dad! Apple made me a cool dad. The apple products are the ones to have. The look cool, they are cool and most important - they work. We live in South Africa. Our daughter dances ballet, hip hop, tap. She loves “Dance academy" tv series, unfortunately it comes only on the Australian Store. We have an Australian iTunes account. I am a cool dad. My wife is a journalist. She wants the New York Times. We have a US account. I am even a cool husband. Our son programs on X-Code, games and does film editing. We have a South African account. I am a cool dad. All the little minions of iPads and iPhones and Macs now want to join the mothership account. iTunes match. Good but for music only.
I have two problems:
With the new iTunes family purchases I was hoping that I could finally combine the country accounts into one. Does not seem to work. The invites do not go out and/or Apple has decided that all the accounts must be in one country? Is there a way around or am I doing something wrong? Should I wait for Yosemite?
Then I purchase a move in the US (with us the releases of the Oscar nominated moves are streamed a year later) and my computer locks to a 90 day account lock for the relevant country. I am sure Apple did it for a reason. It's the law or there must be order on the store: divide et impera. It appears that I am in a group of Mexicans that live in the States or people that move form one country to another and wish to keep their purchases. I would say a minority.
Any ideas how to fix it? I don’t know. But I’d love to stay a cool dad!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Sep 21, 2014 3:19 AM
You have to be in a country to use its store, as you say that you are in South Africa then you can only use the South Africa iTunes store - downloading content from the US, Australian and/or any other country when not in those countries is a violation of the stores terms that you agreed to and you risk having those accounts permanently disabled.
You cannot merge accounts nor transfer content between them. Content is tied to the account and the country.
The 90 association is, I believe, an attempt to try and stop people logging into their accounts on other people's computers and sharing content : iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID. If you can't wait for the 90 days to complete then you can try contacting iTunes Support and see if they will remove it : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
Posted on Sep 21, 2014 5:14 AM