A large department store sold someone an apple gift card that was likely stolen/already redeemed, apple responded by permanently closing his apple account, bricking his devices and causing him to lose access to 20 years of saved media in iCloud
Edit: in the FAQ section he says that he has backups so that’s good. Main damage is that all of his apple devices are tied to the deleted account and won’t work anymore
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Marg bar “the cloud”, marg bar vendor lock-in, and marg bar Amrika.
pomum delenda est
Ceterum (autem) censeo Pomum esse delendam.
for the savings from not buying an iphone for ine iteration of their development cycle (where they remove features and call it streamlining), one could self host their own redundant media storage and probably buy a much-better-than-iphone digital camera.
it is insane to me how expensive these devices are compared to actual cool shit that isn’t made for nana to easily get scam emails and robocalls.
We don’t care, we don’t have to. We’re the (i)phone company.
Imagine this happening to someone with apple iEyes vision implants to correct their eye disease.
That new Black Mirror episode reminds me of this.
You trusted your entire “core digital identity” to a company without doing any backups…
Scolding victims of capitalist greed sucks
Scolding people who doesn’t do backups. Even hosting all locally if you don’t want to lose 20 years of files you do backups.
Based on the article, it looks like the issue is more that they’ve bricked tens of thousands of dollars worth of physical devices that he owns and that since he’s a professional developer for Apple, they’ve kneecapped his income. He has the data mostly backed up.
dont even need to host locally, pulling the files and storing them on hard drives/CD-ROMs to shove in your cupboard is something. Though I gotta get better at educating folks on that front without sounding like a maniac
My bad, in the article he says that he has some backups
