If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts

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Post by lunchbreak » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts
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Post by paxys » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

And by extension all the services you sign in to using a (mandatory) sign in with Apple button.

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Post by Closi » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

Wowza, that's a quick and efficient way to add another antitrust complaint to your list.

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Post by jvzr » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:54 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #2

And by extension all the services you sign in to using a (mandatory) sign in with Apple button.

The presence of the button is mandatory, your use of it is not.

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Post by choppaface » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

How long until we can get Glass-Steagall for the bank of online identity?

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Post by pgm8705 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC

I'm guessing (and hoping) this is a bug and not intentional, but this is pretty scary. My digital personal life is almost all within Apple's ecosystem, including most of the smart devices in my house. Getting locked out for any amount of time would be super frustrating.

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Post by Gys » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC

jvzr wrote: post #4

paxys wrote: post #2

And by extension all the services you sign in to using a (mandatory) sign in with Apple button.

The presence of the button is mandatory, your use of it is not.

Like Apple Card, like Facebook, like Google... ;-)

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Post by fortran77 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:05 PM UTC

pgm8705 wrote: post #6

I'm guessing (and hoping) this is a bug and not intentional, but this is pretty scary. My digital personal life is almost all within Apple's ecosystem, including most of the smart devices in my house. Getting locked out for any amount of time would be super frustrating.

What makes you believe this is not intentional?

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:05 PM UTC

This is one of the areas where consumers are losing their rights because of leverage by foundational companies.

I think it should be illegal for a company to block your account on unrelated services. For example, Facebook should not be able to block your Occulus account, based on what happens on Facebook or WhatsApp. If the companies argue that these accounts are tied to closely together to be able to separate enforcement like that, the answer should be, "too bad, then you can't block at all, until you figure out how to separate the service blocks."

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Post by kitsunesoba » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 8:05 PM UTC

jvzr wrote: post #4

paxys wrote: post #2

And by extension all the services you sign in to using a (mandatory) sign in with Apple button.

The presence of the button is mandatory, your use of it is not.

It’s not even mandatory unless the app offers other auth providers like Google and Facebook. If your app is based around old fashioned email and password sign-in you don’t need to include Sign In with Apple at all.