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@parisba did you use Apple Passwords app and were you able to access it while your account was suspended?

@parisba @siracusa This is scary, could happen to any of us normal people and we’d have no recourse whatsoever!

@parisba
It's your own fault if you only bought digital content from Apple (or Amazon) and therefore have absolutely no rights to it.

#Apple #ID
@oliver

@parisba I posted it to my circles on bsky as well. That is all I can do.

@parisba I'm sorry for what you're going through.

This is not unique to Apple though, it happens also with Google Play as gift cards are massively used for all sorts of scams, frauds, and money laundering. I wouldn't redeem a gift card with a pole, even if bought from a reputable business.

@parisba

macOS doesn't fail, except when it fails badly, as in your case.

And actually macOS does fail often.

Linux users: don't fall into the song of the siren. Whatever goes wrong with Linux, very often it does with macOS too. I can say this as a person who used Linux for 30 years and macOS for 5 years, and is currently using macOS.

@parisba @evan
@EUCommission

See?

@parisba Shit! I can't offer any practical advice, but I hope this all works out for you! 🤞

@parisba : Holy shit. Sending you so much love right now. ❤️

@parisba
Honestly, it should be illegal that they are even allowed to do this. Absolutely unethical business practice here.

@parisba
I checked out at the point where you expect a special solution for your special case and don't realise you spent 30 years supporting extortionists that target everyone. On a personal level i feel your pain, politically this is a disaster of a post.

@parisba I’m really sorry this happened to you. And it could happen to any of us.

This won’t help now, but your story makes me glad I’m in the process of switching to self hosting with https://immich.app/ and similar. Investing in physical media for movies.

It’s harder, I have to stress about uptime, data replication and backups myself, but once it’s done I will never be beholden to Apple’s shenanigans.

@parisba

I am sorry you learned it the hard way but

You got stuff for about 30000NZD (about 15000€ i assume)
Thats stuff for your work
You do not have a local backup
You do not have a system for local backup

Really?

I hope you get your account back and learned from this.

@parisba I hope you get a decent outcome on this. This sounds a complete nightmare.

Have you tried contacting the ACCC? They will fine apple just for opening an investigation. Definitely keep calling them too and let them know you are talking with the ACCC and relevant ombudsman. I'll be thinking about you, this is a nightmare.