They'll probably reverse this soon, but it's an eye-opener for people who store their entire existence on 3rd party clouds.
Nextcloud is your friend.
Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#152As someone using Linux to build web applications, I wonder what about the Apple ecosystem could make it worth to have such a Damocles’ sword hanging over me my whole life. Am I missing something? My current perspective is that not only am I free of all the hassle that comes with building for a closed ecosystem, such as managing a developer account and using proprietary tools, it also comes with much harder distributi…
And that website is hosted somewhere, you’re using several layers of network providers, the registrar has control over your domain, the copper in the ground most likely has an easement controlling access to it so your internet provider literally can just cut off access to you whenever they want, if you publish your apps to a registry the registry controls your apps as well.
There are so many companies that control access to every part of your life. Your argument is meaningless because it applies to _everything_.
A trustless society is not one that anyone should want to be a part of. Regulations exist for a reason.
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#153To paraphrase an old saying: Live by Big Tech, die by Big Tech. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer I've heard others say this (and was a "loyal advocate" of Windows for around 2 decades myself), but the reality is they simply do not care. You are merely a single user out of several billion . Many of the reps I’ve spoken to have suggested strange things That almost sounds like some sort of AI, not a human. But…
This is why I don't use an os that depends on cloud functionality built into the os for much of its fuctionality. It's really stupid IMHO to depend on a closed system like this to store data.
> This is why I don't use an os that depends on cloud functionality built into the os for much of its fuctionality.
macOS doesn't require this. My Apple account has a handful of apps purchased over the years, and that's it. I could've bought them directly from the vendors, but the store makes it easier to update.
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#154To paraphrase an old saying: Live by Big Tech, die by Big Tech. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer I've heard others say this (and was a "loyal advocate" of Windows for around 2 decades myself), but the reality is they simply do not care. You are merely a single user out of several billion . Many of the reps I’ve spoken to have suggested strange things That almost sounds like some sort of AI, not a human. But…
I think we must have passed peak Apple this week or something… I’ve had Clone Hero running badly on an ancient MacBook for my drums, so I decided to swap it out for an M1 Mini that was collecting dust on a shelf. I did a full erase, but I couldn’t get past its activation lock. At all. This is a piece of hardware I purchased on my credit card, for my company, (luckily) linked to a phone number I control and an email a…
This happened to me[1] a decade ago, now. Left Apple hardware on shelf for a year or two, Apple in the mean time did their iCloud migration or something, and my login account could no longer unlock the device. It's been effectively bricked since.
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#155I hope you get it back. I always had the mindset that if I am a paying customer that this type of situation is very unlikely. But you are literally a massive paying customer and you got hit. The truth is you are just a nobody even as a customer who has dumped thousands of dollars as a loyal supporter. Showing up on HackerNews is a positive thing as the only way to get any traction in these situations is either be fam…
Oh yeah and it absolutely does away with bullshit of "If you're not paying you're the product" I'm sorry it doesn't work when these services, even free, are monopolies
You can have free services, you can have paid services but they ALL absolutely have to be answerable to the consumer
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#156Out of curiosity, why did you buy and redeem such a large gift card instead of paying directly? And was this a form of payment that was unusual in light of your account history?
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#157It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. What's the rationale? It would make more sense if they just locked the person out of redeeming gift cards or something, not the entire account. But reading horror stories like this is is why I only use the very bare minimum of any of these cloud services. Keep local copies of everything. For developer accounts, I always create them under a separate email…
Selling gift cards is like borrowing money at 0% interest. And because some people forget and never use them, it's negative interest.
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#158parisidau, I hope you get your account back. you can in the meantime, and for the future, try compartmentalizing services you use. the old saying of "all eggs in one basket" applies here as well. VPS, hard drives, etc. are cheap and keep you more in control of your own data than you're with big tech.
How do you that with Apple hardware that requires an AppleID to operate?
Is your advise to avoid all Apple hardware?
Or buy backup hardware none of which will run MacOS / iOS, so you still couldn't access things like your Apple Developer account, or any shared documents?
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#159Out of curiosity, why did you buy and redeem such a large gift card instead of paying directly? And was this a form of payment that was unusual in light of your account history?
I prefer to keep it topped up like that. It's been the same for 20 years.
Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
with this same logic, you don't want to know how much your government and your country cares about you. odds are even a lot lower for them.
Why would my government care less about me than a multinational corporation with billions of customers that isn't headquartered or listed where I live? My Member of Parliament represents about 130,000 people, does regular door knocking to talk to people, and has a staffed office a few km away the I can walk into anytime I want. None of that applies to a multinational corporation.
Because you can’t get rid of your government, whilst you can easily stop buying apple crap.