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Re: Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

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Post by genewitch » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 8:11 PM UTC

nottorp wrote: post #58

genewitch wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony is a Japanese company and I've always thought of japan as a relatively small country. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Japan isn't that small (especially population wise) and besides when the playstation comes in the news there's an english sounding name attached to them. Also even without the anglosphere management they're an island and crossing a border is ... complex ... for them :)

it's 4% the size of the US' land area. That's "small" to me.

"oh but genewitch the US is a huge country, you can't compare!"

i know. i wish people would remember that when discussing "policy."

edit: per the OP the EU is 50% the size of the US, in land area. So even put in that perspective, i don't consider Japan to be a "large" country. Yes, their population density is crazytown but "continent sized countries" japan is not a member of that set.

Re: Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

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Post by nottorp » Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 8:35 AM UTC

genewitch wrote: post #61

nottorp wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan isn't that small (especially population wise) and besides when the playstation comes in the news there's an english sounding name attached to them. Also even without the anglosphere management they're an island and crossing a border is ... complex ... for them :)

it's 4% the size of the US' land area. That's "small" to me. "oh but genewitch the US is a huge country, you can't compare!" i know. i wish people would remember that when discussing "policy." edit: per the OP the EU is 50% the size of the US, in land area. So even put in that perspective, i don't consider Japan to be a "large" country. Yes, their population density is crazytown but "continent sized countries" japan…

Nitpicking. It's an island. And either Sony Japan or their english speaking CEOs haven't noticed that the EU has disabled borders between all those tiny (or not so tiny to allow for more nitpicking) countries and it's customer hostile to have content restrictions based on those borders.

You probably don't even realize that PSN accounts are tied to countries and Sony does not allow changing country because of "regional rights". Or more because of laziness and/or incompetence, since 99% of titles are available worldwide anyway.

Wouldn't be much of a problem but they think they're some government and only allow paying them with cards based in the country's account... and of course with grey market prepaid cards from the right country, beause who's going to take that seriously?

Re: Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

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Post by zsmizzle » Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

zsmizzle wrote: post #27

Be warned: I migrated an old Apple account to my main Apple account and my “Continue Watching”/Watchlist in the TV App got totally cleared. It also forgot every Apple TV episode I have ever watched. Super frustrating and it won’t let me undo the migration right now either.

An update on this: I tried undoing the migration the next day, and it worked! Everything on my main account was restored, including the TV app’s 'Continue Watching' and Watchlist feeds. Kudos to Apple—the undo function actually worked, which was a pleasant surprise.