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Renamed to Apple Account.
Saved you a click.
For a company so set on renaming every feature and claiming it their own I'm surprised they'd do this
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hundreds of Thousands of people working for Apple, I’m sure they are capable of doing multiple things at once.