i don't know a thing about this, but i have a home-schooling wife with an ipad and each home-schooling kid has an ipod touch. mama says using iCloud would make her life more awesome than it already is. i, OTOH, can only imagine how hard it will be to keep our identities un-stolen using cloud-based stuff.
also looking for info re. does each device have to be registered to the same person, or is it set up for sharing amongst people (which i think is what my wife thinks it is).
enlighten me, you smart motherberkeleyers!
I am very hesitant about the cloud. Maybe I do not trust people, maybe I do not trust people with my info.. maybe I have seen too much technology come and then disappear without a trace... but I would not let the cloud handle anything without secure physical backups at home and I defintly would not let them have anything that needs to be secure
The only thing I have on a cloud is music.
Could you use a Bluetooth connection and store it all on Mama's computer?
If you turn off Simple Passcode (4 digit number) and use a longer alphanumeric passcode then your data is encrypted on the cloud.
I am just presuming that at some time the cloud (all all those like it) will be hacked eventually.
But she's right, it will make her life easier.
In reply to carguy123:
OK, i get the passcode thing. thanks for that.
next question is, do all the devices have to be owned by /registered to the same person?
I'm new to the cloud, but I know my daughter & son-in-law kept the same cloud for quite a while until she decided to open her own cloud account so she wouldn't keep getting all his pictures.
If she wants to sync the same info across all devices then yes, she would have to sign into each device with that one Apple ID. iCloud is great for personal syncing and sharing but like everything else Apple, does nothing for family/small group syncing.
But you can associate a device with multiple Apple IDs so if your kids all have their own iTunes accounts (and associated Apple IDs) they can keep those but still have your wife's account on there for syncing of iCloud data. You/they would just have to sign in and out of accounts as necessary when syncing data or buying music, apps, etc.
sounds like you want to use dropbox... i LOVE dropbox... when I did video collaboration with some friends (i'd shoot the video and drop box it so he could do the post work)...
now I use it for my schoolwork... I can drop it in from my laptop and it shows up on my desktop... no flash drive or emailing it back and forth
specific example would be that she buys an educational app, she wants it to show up on her ipad plus both ipods.
i know with android you have to have the same account installed on the device to install the paid for app on multiple devices... same with kindle devices (which is why my wife and I share a kindle/amazon account... if I buy a book we can use it on either device
Literally I can buy an app on my account and install it on as many devices as I want to sign in on - there is no DRM or install count limits, as long as I use the AppleID and password it was purchased under it doesn't matter; iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad1, iPad4, all of the above, whatever. The only caveat is that you need to stay signed into that AppleID to get updates or to continually sync iCloud data. Of course app updates aren't that frequent and it doesn't sound like you want to constantly sync iCloud data like email, contacts, or calendars so it shouldn't be a problem. Although to clarify further, you can have a single account signed into an unlimited number of devices at one time, no restrictions there either.
Now technically the single app purchase on multiple devices may be (probably is) violating some fine print somewhere of Apple's App Store but I've never heard of anyone having any problems with it or any problems from Apple.
Helpful article on iTunes (and iCloud) basics.
EDIT - from here.
Apple Legalese said:
As an accommodation to you, subsequent to acquiring Eligible Content, you may download certain of such previously-purchased Eligible Content onto any Associated Device. Some Eligible Content that you previously purchased may not be available for subsequent download at any given time, and Apple shall have no liability to you in such event. As you may not be able to subsequently download certain previously-purchased Eligible Content, once you download an item of Eligible Content, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage it, and you may want to back it up.
Association of Associated Devices is subject to the following terms:
(i) You may auto-download Eligible Content or download previously-purchased Eligible Content from an Account on up to 10 Associated Devices, provided no more than 5 are iTunes-authorized computers.
(ii) An Associated Device can be associated with only one Account at any given time.
(iii) You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only once every 90 days.
(iv) You may download previously-purchased free content onto an unlimited number of devices while it is free on the App and Book Services, but on no more than 5 iTunes-authorized computers.
The above terms (i) to (iv) do not apply to App Store Products.
