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APPLE BUT THEY ARE One of my sisters is celebrating her 80th birthday soon. She and I regularly swap recommendations for TV movies and series we’ve enjoyed, but she has not signed up for any
of the Apple shows I enjoy. I thought I’d fix that for her birthday, so I sent her an emailed Apple gift certificate to cover a years worth of Apple TV+. Easy-peasy, right? Nope. My sister
is a bit of a technophobe. She has an Apple phone, but can’t do much with it beyond calls and texts. You need at least email setup to redeem an Apple gift card into your account so that it
can be used to subscribe to Apple TV+. Now setting up email is not hard. All you usually need to do is know your email address and your password; Apple takes care of the rest. Then you open
the email, click on “Redeem”, and the gift card gets put in your account. You can then use that money to pay for almost anything Apple sells, including TV+. But, even with the help of her
son, my sister couldn’t do it. I could tell her to call Apple — they would help for free and are very patient, but she’s now cranky and frustrated. She said thanks, but no thanks. Why
doesn’t Apple make this easier? Why can’t I just tell Apple I want to pay for her TV+ subscription and give them her Apple ID? They could tell their computers to charge me. She could just
fire it up and it would be working. It’s dumb that I can’t do this. Believe it or not, there are a lot of technophobes who might like to watch Apple TV+, but are incapable of doing the
necessary steps to get it working. Some of them don’t own any Apple devices, but they can watch at https://tv.apple.com. My sister and her son couldn’t figure that out either. This is her
second iPhone. She switched back to Android from the first and only got this one because her son switched. She thginks Apple is confusing. Did you know that Apple has a product suggestion
page? Yeah. But you can’t suggest anything for TV+ there. You can make suggestions or comments about their hardware TV box, but not about the service itself. Isn’t that dumb? So then I
thought of Family Sharing. Unfortunately, some fool at T-Mobile set up her iPhone using her work email address. That’s not going to work as she will retire soon. We created a new Apple ID
just for TV+, but she couldn’t get it to accept verification codes. Finally, we gave up. We’ll try again tomorrow. We could just change her Apple ID at iCloud, but she doesn't know her
password. Why would she? As I said, she barely uses the phone! I would not be surprised if she once again returned to Android, which is another reason to just set up a new ID. Or maybe not.
Dearest Apple, there are people who just don’t get tech. They need help with things you and I see as completely obvious. Some of them would love to watch Ted Lasso and all the other
wonderful shows on TV+. Stop being dumb. Make it easier for them. There is no reason at all why I shouldn’t be able to gift my sister Apple TV plus as easily as I could gift a physical
product. Many people who own no Apple devices and never will own any would enjoy TV+. You could give them a very simple form: * Your email or existing Apple ID: * Apple ID password or make
one up now: * Payment credit card for subscription or Apple Gift card number: Done and dusted. JOIN MEDIUM WITH MY REFERRAL LINK - ANTHONY LAWRENCE (PCUNIX) READ EVERY STORY FROM ANTHONY
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