Kirk McElhearn over at Macworld has an excellent piece summarizing the ways Apple IDs present all kinds of headaches and troubles for their users. It's nothing others haven't said before, indeed--we've written about it many times on TUAW, but the issue is so important, it's worth bearing repeating as often as possible: the current implementation of Apple IDs suck.
Almost anyone with an Apple ID has an Apple ID horror story. They began when Apple unleashed its dotmac email service, then iTunes IDs, the failed MobileMe servi