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It was a dumb move. So much more important things to be working on. There was nothing wrong with the “Apple ID” naming. Renaming it just creates unnecessary confusion.
Some project manager felt the need to justify their existence.
*Product Owner
Project manager moves the project along, product owners are the ones making product direction decisions.
And product marketing pushes for product renames like this. I wonder how much this will cost Apple in international trademark fees? Apple likes to recycle existing product names to save money (AppleWorks, AppleVision, iBooks, etc). I don’t think Apple Account was an existing trademark.
As someone who had to support Apple products at an enterprise level, kindly fuck off. Trying to explain that an appleid is a users apple account is annoying as fuck, and they don't remember it because it's not labeled as an account, then bitch at the person trying to help them about long password reset process's (or losing their data). Particularly when dealing with people with known anger issues that have the power to fire you on a whim.
Standard terminology exists for a damn good reason. This is a very welcome change.
I agree with you. It’s not identity, it’s an account. Laypersons are used to drivers licenses (IDs) and bank accounts. The rename is definitely a welcome change and makes Apple consistent with Microsoft and Google etc.
@fartsparkles @Zorsith @apple_enthusiast the name change is appropriate for both descriptive and international standards purposes, even if not compliant with nostalgia. Now if they’ed just make iWork ODF compatible for the same reasons so I could use it for actual work instead of it just taking up space on my devices.
Just remove the apps and install Libre Office? You can literally drag the apps to the trashcan.
@fartsparkles I use LiO. Have for years. Memory is t really the issue. It’s useless programs because of the idiocy of extreme walls garden ideology.
Then don’t use the apps? You’re getting angry about free apps that you aren’t forced to use or even install (they are not even installed by default so you chose to install them).
Also as a LiO user since StarOffice, Apple’s apps are totally different beasts and I don’t see how they could be compatible. It’s like comparing Scrivener to WordGrinder; sure you can write a letter in both but they’re still fundamentally different apps with different functionality and design goals and their file formats aren’t ODF because of that.
If you need ODF/OOXML-like word processing, use apps that support them. Don’t expect non ODF/OOXML-like word processors to handle files they’ve no reason to be mucking about with.
Hundreds of Thousands of people working for Apple, I’m sure they are capable of doing multiple things at once.