UX Note: Apple needs to get in sync
Apple IIe (Wikimedia Commons) The first computer I used was an Apple II in a computer lab in my elementary school. My first computer was an Apple IIe. I am forever thankful to my father who convinced me that replacing it with a Mac SE was the smarter move than getting the Apple IIgs. Except for a few companies that had me working on Windows machines, and some development on Linux boxes, I've been using Macs ever since. I've been on the iPhone since the first one in 2007. I love Apple and most of their products (the Mac Portable should never have come out, and the Pippin...let's not go there). I love that their products 'just work' and are consistent in design (due to their 'Human Interface Guidelines'). That's why it pains me when they don't work. Some things should work better, and just don't (and don't get fixed). In particular, I've found that Apple has a problem keeping things in sync with their iTunes/iCloud services. Let me just preface this with saying technically there are no iTunes accounts and iCloud accounts, there are really just Apple IDs that are associated with iTunes or iCloud. I understand this, but…