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Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as
by disgruntledphd2 3y ago
Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as a guest as they insisted on sending my 2FA code to my iPad (which mostly just annoyed my toddler).
- randcraw 3y agoNo. The user base for Apple Music on Windows is huge. Apple devices are secondary. Using the AM app is primary, once you've been successfully sucked into the Apple ecosystem, Borg-like.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoSorry? Like the OP I run predominantly Linux and I noted my experience with Aple 2fa and my assumptions around why it happens. Perhaps I'm incorrect but what I said did happen to me.
- notso411 3y ago[dead]
- worksonmine 3y ago> Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries Assumes or tries very hard to make the alternative as difficult as possible? From a company that prides itself in improving and simplifying UX the dark patterns aren't mistakes.
- blantonl 3y agoMaybe the UX is so good because they don't care to have a development team supporting your 0.001% edge case of you wanting to run iMovie on your Sun Workstation running Solaris.
- Brian_K_White 3y ago[flagged]
- blantonl 3y agoThe simple reality is this: if you are refusing to follow the established processes and procedures of an ecosystem that you've voluntarily decided to be a part of, for some technical reason you've conjured up or gotten yourself in, for which seems to otherwise work fine for billions of people, then you are a particular edge case Now, with your final word, don't say something online you wouldn't in a professional setting, especially around here. It is disrespectful and unprofessional, and you should probably know better.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoWhat, like, "Wow, really doubling down on the dickface eh?" Would that be a representative example?
- blantonl 3y agoyou should delete this Brian. This is embarrassing for you.
- Hizonner 3y agoThe "established procedures" of the worldwide, multi-company, multi-country "ecosystem" in which Apple is embedded are that everything, or at least everything administrative, can be done first and foremost from a Web page. Once you get that basic functionality in place, you can start screwing around with apps or whatever. Your platform is an "edge case", and, yes, Apple, this means you. As for professionalism, you appear to be under the unfortunate misapprehension that anybody gets paid to engage in bull sessions on here.
- blantonl 3y agoyou appear to be under the unfortunate misapprehension that anybody gets paid to engage in bull sessions on here. Fortunately, I'm not mistaken in the fact that this world is small, and the grandparent poster is living in it. I've had the distinct honor to witness many a person sitting across from me have the unfortunate distinction of being known by me in circumstances that were less than fortunate for them. And at the end of the day that can really affect how someone "gets paid."
- metanonsense 3y agoI think with organizations of this size it‘s usually just stupidity, lack of focus, or bad product management. Apple UX is sometimes really bad and buggy and the question „cui bono“ often has the simple answer: no one. It‘s just a bug that happened somewhere in the dev cycle or some immature idiosyncrasy that was rushed into the product because someone just liked the idea.
- xandrius 3y agoYour toddler gets annoyed that you need a 2FA code on your iPad?