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[Apple](http://www.apple.com/) announced a new feature during WWDC called [Family Sharing](http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/family-sharing/) that will “bring harmony to your family’s digital life” by allowing up to six users share apps they buy using the same credit card. This is a genius play, but not all the reasons are obvious.

For one thing, people were sharing their Apple IDs with family and friends to do this, anyway. While this caused some confusion within the accounts, it was worth it to save some money through not having to buy the same app for each family member. How Apple reacted to this behavior is telling – rather than doing the obvious by trying to prevent people from “cheating the system,” they’ve endorsed it by officially allowing family to share apps among each other for free.<commit_msg>Added image to blog post<commit_after>---
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[Apple](http://www.apple.com/) announced a new feature during WWDC called [Family Sharing](http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/family-sharing/) that will “bring harmony to your family’s digital life” by allowing up to six users share apps they buy using the same credit card. This is a genius play, but not all the reasons are obvious.

For one thing, people were sharing their Apple IDs with family and friends to do this, anyway. While this caused some confusion within the accounts, it was worth it to save some money through not having to buy the same app for each family member. How Apple reacted to this behavior is telling – rather than doing the obvious by trying to prevent people from “cheating the system,” they’ve endorsed it by officially allowing family to share apps among each other for free.
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