I recently blogged about how I decided to ditch my long-held mobileme email address from Apple. It just so happens that that email address is the one that I had used with the Apple on line store (duh). Apple, in their infinite wisdom decided to make it very difficult for you to change from using a .mac email ID to a non-Apple one. Impossible in fact.
When I went to the Apple online store to order a new copy of iLife, I wanted to make sure I changed my email address (which is what Apple also uses as your ID) to my new address. No can do. Here is the completely lame message that I was presented:
This change is not allowed. This account name was originally set up as a .Mac account and upgraded to MobileMe. An Apple ID has already been automatically set up for use with this member name. You can access this Apple ID by using either .Mac or MobileMe addresses (e.g. membername@mac.com or membername@me.com), but you cannot change the Apple ID. If you would like to use a new account name, please create a new Apple ID.
That is swell, but when you leave .Mac, you can’t change your email address and have to create a new account. As an added bonus, there is no ‘logout’ functionality on the Apple store site. So you have to start another browser, create a new account (re-keying all of your info), then go place the items you want to order in your cart again, then, finally, check out. Very, very crappy user experience Apple.
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