Requiring them to make a (free) Apple account doesn’t sound unreasonable.

“Go to https://account.apple.com/ and make one that doesn’t use your Apple corporate email” seems like a fair and legal work instruction to me.

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ndriscoll 2 days ago | parent [-]

That seems crazy to me. I've always had my employers either provide or offer to provide me with anything I'll use for work. Asking someone to use a non-corporate-managed account for work seems especially insane to me. I've never heard of that.

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sokoloff 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t see as much difference as you seem to see here.

Day 1 at FooCorp: “As part of onboarding, please set up these two accounts, both of which FooCorp operates and bears all the costs for.”

Day 1 at Apple: “As part of onboarding, please set up these two accounts, both of which Apple operates and bears all the costs for.”

	▲	ndriscoll 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've never heard of being asked by an employer to make an account associated to a non-work account (like a personal email). They should provision SSO, or at least use a company domain like apple.com or internal.apple.com for test accounts. Day 1 at FooCorp: "Your email address is you@foocorp.com. Conducting business activities with personal accounts is against policy and may result in disciplinary action including termination. It may also be a regulatory violation depending on industry."

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Arnt 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I assume they want the developers to dogfood the software they work on. Not crazy if so.