Can I use my email address as my iPad ID? Thanks., Can I use my email address as my iPad ID? Thanks.

Hi! Do I really have to enter my VISA info in order for me to access iTunes, App Store, etc? Can I download
Yahoo Messenger in my iPad? Thanks.

user1724 wrote:
You can use a non @me to set up iCloud, then add your @me address to that apple id.  So you have your apple id as any addreee you want, and your @me address is attached to that apple id, but it is not the id.  That is what I did, so I know that works.
If you open an iCloud account with an ID which is a non-Apple email address you will be asked to create a new @me.com address to go with it. People have reported that it is not possible to add an existing @me.com address to an iCloud account, so if that is what you've done I can't explain why you got away with it An @me.com address is an Apple ID in its own rigtht so you would be in effect merging IDs, which (despite many people's fervent wishes) is not possible.
And as said you can't use an alias address for anything else than an alias in the account by which it was created.

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