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Re: Relationship between Apple identities...

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Relationship between Apple identities...
Date	2019-01-20 04:29 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnq47u8d.30pi.g.kreme@Snow.local> (permalink)
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In message <gahcntFbo89U3@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2019-01-19, bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <q1tles$oum$1@news.albasani.net> bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>>>> Can somebody explain the relationship between the various identities
>>>> that modern Apple devices inflict on users?
>>> 
>>> Not a good start.
>>> 
>>>> There's AppleID, Itunes account, Appstore account and iCloud account
>>>> at least, maybe more that Luddites like me don't know about.
>>> 
>>> There is a single AppleID. You can use it for email, app purchase, music
>>> and movie purchases, logging in to your developer account, accessing
>>> icloud.com, finding your phone or other devices, tracking you health
>>> data, and many other things. Or just one of those things.
>>> 
>>>> How (if at all) are they related? Once created at Apple's request, how
>>>> can they be deleted?
>>> 
>>> It are not created at Apple's request. 
>>
>> Perhaps it was an invitation mistaken for a request....
>>
>>> And there is a method for
>>> deleting an AppleID, but since I've never had any inclination to do so,
>>> I cannot give you details. I'm sure a second or three with a willing
>>> search engine will reveal all.
>>> 
>>
>> Alas, no enlightenment has come of this thunderstorm 8-) Please understand
>> it's not my account. I'm trying to help someone who bought an iPhone and
>> somehow ended up with at least two, possibly three, distinct logins and
>> passwords associated with the iPhone, an iMac and an email address 
>> associated with iCloud. It started, I think, following a system restore at
>> the Genius Bar after the iMac's hard drive failed. 
>>
>> Predating all this nonsense there was only an iMac login and a Yahoo email 
>> account. The core of the problem is that mail received via Yahoo and
>> replied to by iPhone seems to come from an account associated with iCloud. 
>>
>> I suppose one could simply go back to the Genius bar, but I was hopeful
>> that a general overview might be found or referred to in this group.
>> The issue is confusing to me as a long-time computer user, the victim of
>> the "identity crisis" is less savvy than I am. 

> You can't save people from themselves.

Especially someone so utterly out of the loop to be using yahoo
services.

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Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-18 22:54 +0000
  Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-18 15:05 -0800
    Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-18 18:41 -0500
      Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-18 15:45 -0800
    Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-19 13:33 +0000
      Re: Relationship between Apple identities... "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-19 13:58 +0000
        Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-20 13:01 +0000
          Re: Relationship between Apple identities... "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-20 15:03 +0000
          Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-20 23:57 +0000
            Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-20 18:59 -0500
              Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-21 02:17 +0000
                Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-20 21:29 -0500
      Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-19 15:37 +0000
  Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-18 18:42 -0500
  Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-19 00:26 +0000
    Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-18 19:47 -0500
      OT: Preserving Flash sites? (was Re: Relationship between Apple identities...) Supermarine Spitfire <spitfire@spitfireflyinghigh.com> - 2019-01-19 10:04 +0000
        Re: OT: Preserving Flash sites? (was Re: Relationship between Apple identities...) Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-19 05:20 -0500
    Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-19 17:17 +0000
      Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-19 12:21 -0500
      Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-19 19:39 +0000
        Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-20 04:29 +0000

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