2 iPhones, 3 PC's, 1 iTunes Account?

We've got two iPhones, 3 computers (1 is wife's work), and one iTunes account. My iphone will be synced only on my pc, my wife's will be synced on all three.
She would like to get rid of my calendar which is already on her phone. We haven't figured out how to do that so far.
Would we be better off with 2 itunes accounts? The advantage to having one means we can share apps. When I talked to an Apple tech rep, he said that was ok. Am I correct in assuming that if we had separate accounts we could not share apps?
What are the pros and cons of 1 account or 2?

Each computers iTunes would need to authorize each others accounts so that computer knows that items from that account are allowed.
My wife and I started by using two accounts as we had two accounts.
While it does work easy for music, over time the apps have become sort of a pain.
What happens is when you sync, your account info is what gets defaulted for items you buy via the phone (eg: apps). Now if you have apps on your computer that you both bought they will sync over. Issue comes when updates come.
When in the phone if you get a list of lets say 3 updates to apps. 1 from you, two from her. Well you cannot say update all. You have to go to each and update one at a time. It will prompt for user account info. If you try update all, it will prompt but then fail for those not under that account.
I ended up stop using my login for buying stuff and just use hers, so now 90% of what we have in apps are under her account. Just makes it easier.
So while you can share apps with multiple accounts it means when you authorize each account for each others computers it counts as 1 of your 5 for each. No biggie really. Same would happen for 1 account that each computer will count for that account.

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