by Family Sharing, a feature due to debut with Mac OS X Yosemite, should bring a measure of sanity to households full of Apple devices. The idea behind Family Sharing is simple: You have multiple people in your home and just as many Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch units. And yet there’s no good way to share content purchased from Apple’s online stores—especially if they were purchased under different Apple IDs—or to coordinate family-focused information among those devices. Family Sharing was designed to address these issues.
For example, Dad’s got Casablanca on his Mac, Mom won’t stop grooving to her copy of American Idiot, teenaged Aisha has a lock on the entire Divergent series, and if you want to play Monument Valley, you have to negotiate the iPad away from Little Jack. Now imagine if all this media was purchased this way:
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