20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
hey.paris
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it. I hope this is true. They say they’ll call me back tomorrow, on 15 December 2025. In the mean time, it’s been covered by Daring Fireball, Apple Insider, Michael Tsai, and others, thanks folks! I’ve received 100s of emails of support, and will reply to you all in time, thank you. Finger’s crossed Apple calls back.

Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.

932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    16 days ago

    After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer

    This is why loyalty to companies is stupid and weird.

    Cause they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about what you spent. You are a meaningless blip to them.

    Stop putting your eggs in one basket, and tying your entire on and offline life to a single corporate ID/Username/Account/Whatever.

    This is the price you pay for your laziness and “convenience”

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      1·
      15 days ago

      I’m most shocked that at the time of this posting, you have 2 downvotes. Wtf?

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Corporate loyalists don’t like when you point out how dangerous/dumb/weird their blind loyalty to multi-billion dollar companies is.