Tangential business idea: insurance against getting locked out of your Google, Apple or Microsoft account.
Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
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#252Happened to me while on holiday in Costa Rica. Was able to reset PW this morning, thank goodness.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought an iPhone a couple of days ago, and was planning on using the weekend to finally migrate from my old Android phone. Luckily, I haven't even opened the box so I should be able to return it for a full refund. No way I'm spending over $1000 for this kind of experience.
Apple lets you return anything, opened and used, within 14 days.
Apple doesn’t really “let”, the law demands.
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#254With risk of being spammy, this is probably the most relevant discussion I've seen so far on HN w.r.t my experience of being locked out from my Apple ID. I hope legislation will force Apple to step up and be more transparent / helpful. https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket...
Don’t want to sound like I’m victim blaming the author. But I can tell you exactly the issue with their account: registering with an email on a self hosted .xyz domain. Using sketchy tld’s is just asking for this kind of trouble.
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought an iPhone a couple of days ago, and was planning on using the weekend to finally migrate from my old Android phone. Luckily, I haven't even opened the box so I should be able to return it for a full refund. No way I'm spending over $1000 for this kind of experience.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd bu…
This is actually great. You basically look like a stolen device with a sim swap.
Re: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought an iPhone a couple of days ago, and was planning on using the weekend to finally migrate from my old Android phone. Luckily, I haven't even opened the box so I should be able to return it for a full refund. No way I'm spending over $1000 for this kind of experience.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd bu…
>My conclusion - have two physical phones + laptop all synced, plus hardcopy of important pswds etc.
Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes (assuming you know your Google account password)?
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd bu…
>My conclusion - have two physical phones + laptop all synced, plus hardcopy of important pswds etc. Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes (assuming you know your Google account password)?
In case one phone doesn't work or is lost or stolen or broken, I guess. Plus buying a second phone is great for the economy!
Society was collectively sold this deal where if you entrust everything to a trillion-dollar company, you'll be treated well and this sort of thing wouldn't happen. Yet it appears to be happening, and the trillion-dollar company that has the resources to deal with this so far isn't being very helpful, and it's falling to the consumer to take insane amounts of proactive measures to not have their digital lives fucked up when the exact deal was that you wouldn't have to, but of course now the party line will be "well you were obviously stupid to believe the trillion-dollar company's trillion-dollar marketing, then."
And I'm annoyed as one of the people who did not buy into it.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd bu…
>My conclusion - have two physical phones + laptop all synced, plus hardcopy of important pswds etc. Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes (assuming you know your Google account password)?
> Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes
Because, as I can tell from a similar experience to GP's, they also won't save you if the authentication infrastructure decides you're not who you say you are.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at least for about a week and then dropped my phone and it got damaged. I bought another phone (Adroid) and tried to log in to by google accounts. It recognized the email and the pswd bu…
Don't bind your online identity to Apple or Google or Microsoft, in particular not the email addresses you use for accounts. That at least limits the damage they can do.
iTunes didn't even allow you to add your own album art. To do so you had to be signed in with Apple ID, so Apple could look up the album details on the iTunes store and set the image that way.
This was in 2008, so the software ecosystem lock-in strategy was already well-established back then.
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