Curt Clifton on Twitter: "@mjtsai How so? Mat wasn’t actively using Apple email. Or do you mean it was a poor design decision to confound Apple ID and email address?"

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 7 Aug 2012

There are certain things we can only do via iCloud, but this Apple ID stuff just reinforces that it’s not a good idea to use it for e-mail.

@mjtsai How so? Mat wasn’t actively using Apple email. Or do you mean it was a poor design decision to confound Apple ID and email address?

9:31 AM - 7 Aug 2012

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