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App Store Access To Require Additional Activation Process?

Submitted by Edward Kirk on June 26, 2008 - 3:55pm.
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Italian news site setteB.IT claims to have learned that the iPhone 3G activation process in the US may be slightly more complex than previously expected. While the in-store activation policy is far less convenient than the previous iTunes activation process, users wanting to access the App Store will be required to register an account in order to do so. If this process is also required to be done on site, it could add further complexity to the already cumbersome process. (However, they may make it able to be done at home through iTunes, posing little inconvenience.)
[via iPod Observer]

UM

Submitted by chrisP0852 on June 26, 2008 - 5:05pm.
WHY DOES THE iPod Observer Link just take You to The Same Page

Submitted by Edward Kirk on June 26, 2008 - 5:50pm.
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Originally Posted by chrisP0852 View Post
WHY DOES THE iPod Observer Link just take You to The Same Page
Because I forgot to finish the tag...

Really...

Submitted by Sparks (not verified) on June 26, 2008 - 5:56pm.
I doubt the 'binding to an account' will work much differently than binding to an iTunes Music Store account under the current system does. I'd actually place good money that the App Store account will BE the iTunes Music Store account, and thus that it would be linked up with the phone during synchronization through iTunes. If not in precisely the same process as the Music Store, at least a similar one.