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OAuth only makes sense if they provide an API for iCloud calendar, which isn't the case as far as I know.
It's a bog-standard CalDAV server, which isn't an API, of course, but at the same time, it sorta is.
Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
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Re: Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
#32I have never seen that an app requests the security questions when making an in app purchase. Granted it's been a while since I last made one. Can anyone tell me if this is supposed to be normal now?
I tried to talk to Disney's support but of course no answer there...
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#33Hey everybody, Pierre from @sunrise. This is the blog post we've just published to give more context: "Users sometimes ask us why we require the user’s Apple ID and password in Sunrise, instead of using the local Calendar API. That’s a great question to ask, and we understand why users don’t want to share their credentials without context. We’ve thought a lot about that. The two reasons why we are doing this are: - o…
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#34Okay, I have a question. AppleID and pw non-withstanding, I have experienced the following. I played Where's my water2 recently and came to the end where you have to pay to get additional levels. No biggie, I did this with the first game as well. But, when I clicked the in app purchase and entered my password I was prompted with a pop saying I needed to answer my 3 security questions next. Of course I hit cancel and…
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It's pretty crazy that you need to use the same credentials to "buy" a $0 app as you have to remotely lock and wipe your iphone and mac.
You don't need to at all. I use two separate Apple IDs on my iOS devices. Apple ID accounts are individually configurable for most, if not all iCloud/App Store services.
How do you do it actually?
Re: Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
#36It's actually Apple's fault, they should offer an API for this kind of thing!
If I ask for your gmail user / pass is that fine because there's no API ?
Re: Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
#37Hey everybody, Pierre from @sunrise. This is the blog post we've just published to give more context: "Users sometimes ask us why we require the user’s Apple ID and password in Sunrise, instead of using the local Calendar API. That’s a great question to ask, and we understand why users don’t want to share their credentials without context. We’ve thought a lot about that. The two reasons why we are doing this are: - o…
Sunrise doesn't have a (known) security problem. Sunrise happened to reveal a glaring problem with Apple's security policies.
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You don't need to at all. I use two separate Apple IDs on my iOS devices. Apple ID accounts are individually configurable for most, if not all iCloud/App Store services.
If no one uses a feature the feature might as well not exist.
People with families have known about this feature for years. The sales staff at the Apple Stores specifically bring it up.
Re: Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
#39It's actually Apple's fault, they should offer an API for this kind of thing!
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty crazy that you need to use the same credentials to "buy" a $0 app as you have to remotely lock and wipe your iphone and mac.
You don't need to at all. I use two separate Apple IDs on my iOS devices. Apple ID accounts are individually configurable for most, if not all iCloud/App Store services.