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This is insane. I looked into this because I have a work (my own work) iPad and then my primary user account across like 5 computers. Because they all have like
by arthurcolle 5y ago
This is insane. I looked into this because I have a work (my own work) iPad and then my primary user account across like 5 computers. Because they all have like 1-2TB of storage each, I havent found a consistent backup solution that makes sense in terms of price/convenience and I just manually backup like 1-50GB of "very important" existentially critically pieces of info.
It should be very easy to merge accounts. Even a naive implementation could just modify references from account_you_dont_care_about (A1) to account_you_want_to_be_primary (A2) and then delete A2.
Such a burden on the everyday consumer. Extremely, extremely frustrating. I understand why my parents and others in their generation feel confused by some nuances, because this is just a non-transparent, de-prioritized product goal that will never be improved. I hope we legislate this as part of the Right to Repair plan, it's adjacent.
- dmckeon 5y agothen delete A1, surely.
- arthurcolle 5y agothere's a lot of content on A1 that was bought and purchased over the last 15 years or so!
- frabcus 5y agoI think the real answer is legislation to let purchased digital content get moved arbitrarily between accounts. This would also create a second hand market, which there should be.
- arthurcolle 5y agoSurely our elected officials will deliver.
- arthurcolle 5y agoI just noticed what you were saying - yes lol, delete the account that you've migrated stuff off of. Good catch, too many numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU
- drivebycomment 5y ago> It should be very easy to merge accounts. This can not be further from the truth. It is extremely difficult to do this. Anyone who says this is easy does not understand how difficult it is to do this across a modern distributed information system. Most services do not do this, because it is so exceedingly difficult, not because they don't want to.
- arthurcolle 5y agoIf you can't serve your users properly, then your information system is fundamentally broken and your architecture is inept. If your system is so distributed that you can't properly change linkages across the same user's multiple accounts, your system is poorly engineered.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y ago>It should be very easy to merge accounts. Even a naive implementation could just modify references from account_you_dont_care_about (A1) to account_you_want_to_be_primary (A2) and then delete A2. Logic bugs are a hell of a thing.
- arthurcolle 5y agoThey've had more than a decade to figure out their schemas and their distributed systems - a failure at this level is inexcusable, and is indicative of architectural laziness and potentially a lack of excellence.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoI meant in OP's comment; it's not A2 they want to delete.