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iTunes does activations. The Mac App Store does not. You log into the Mac App Store with your Apple ID, that has nothing to do with iTunes. It wouldn’t make any
by ugh 15y ago
iTunes does activations. The Mac App Store does not. You log into the Mac App Store with your Apple ID, that has nothing to do with iTunes. It wouldn’t make any sense to allow you to only activate five Macs for the App Store, given the license.
edit: Hey dude who downvoted, I made a factual claim. I have no problem with downvoting wrong factual claims but if you do you should at least clarify what is wrong.
- masklinn 15y agoI did not downvote you, but you're wrong all the same: MAS is a frontend to a sub-section of the iTunes Store. Similar to the iOS AppStore (which is a part of iTunes on computers, but a separate store on iPhones or iPads). In fact, if you have a tracing firewall you can see it send requests to itunes's servers. And as far as I know MAS does the exact same thing as iTunes: you can authorize an account on 5 machines at a time.
- ugh 15y agoI most certainly wasn't trying to make any claims about the technical infrastructure. Sure, MAS and iTunes use the same, no question, I wasn't trying to deny that. But are there activations? That's the question. iTunes has all this UI for managing activations, the MAS has not. You can't activate computers, you can't deactivate computers. Then there's the different license. It wouldn't make any sense if you had a limited number of activations given the license. I see no reason to believe why there should be activations in the MAS. Using the same infrastructure doesn't mean anything.