Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #44

piyush_soni wrote: post #19

Admittedly, Android does it much better by providing oAuth, an easy way to get the users sign in, and of course APIs for almost all the popular features. And also, for installing $0 apps you don't need any credit card details at all. Even the buttons are different "Install" v/s "Buy".

>> Admittedly, Android does it much better by providing oAuth, an easy way to get the users sign in, and of course APIs for almost all the popular features. First of all this has nothing to do with iOS/Android. This is an app trying to access a web service. Apple needs to provide oath or similar for accessing their iCloud services. >> And also, for installing $0 apps you don't need any credit card details at all. Eve…

Post by bhartzer » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 7:25 PM UTC

Post by qaz_plm » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 8:47 PM UTC

jljljl wrote: post #83

runjake wrote: post #8

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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 I've been using 1 Apple ID on my devices for the past ~4 years, how do I create two separate accounts without losing data or access to media? Serious Question.

Post by pflats » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 10:10 PM UTC

kevinpet wrote: post #37

way66 wrote: post #15

Hey 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…

They should have rejected your app until they had an Oauth solution in place. That's the right answer to avoid training Apple users to be fishing targets. Sunrise doesn't have a (known) security problem. Sunrise happened to reveal a glaring problem with Apple's security policies.

Post by EpicEng » Thu, Jan 23, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

nknighthb wrote: post #50

EpicEng wrote: post #45

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I'm an engineer an I didn't know you could use two accounts for different tasks on the same device. Just never thought about it, because why would I? Not a reasonable workaround, I agree.

> Just never thought about it, because why would I? Anyone with family members using their iTunes account would and has for many years. That's why it's there.