Can my wife and I merge our accounts?

Question

I recently got married and was wondering if there is a way to merge my itunes account with my wifes so that we dont both have to buy the same apps and music etc. but instead can share.  Or should we just axe one the accounts and share?  If we share do both phones have to have the same music and contacts and what not or could they still both just have the apps and music we each want?

Answer 1

You don't have to purchase twice. If you use the same user account on the computer and the same iTunes library, you can each sync your iPhones and just select what you want to be synched. ITunes will note and keep separate each of your iPhones. You just have to get all your content from each of your accounts into a single iTunes library and authorize iTunes to both of your iTunes Store accounts.
Or you can each have your own computer user account and separate iTunes libraries (which makes synching your iPhones a bit cleaner) and still share apps and music. If you don't mind duplicate copies, just either redownload them each to your own iTunes libraries, or copy the tracks and apps to each others account (there's usually some sort of "Shared" folder that all user accounts on the computer can access. You'll just need each other's iTunes Store account ID and password.
If you really don't want to have duplicates, post back and we can advise on that as well.
Regards.