posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
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@parisba two things:
- Get professional data recovery for your laptops. Alternatively, boot them in target disk mode and have another mac user copy them to a NAS for you. Always have a local copy of the stuff you care about!
- Find a lawyer to write them a letter. Letters from lawyers go to the legal department, which is instant escalation. If that doesn’t work, consider further legal action.
@parisba that’s a very sad to see this type of action from a big corp. To be honest this should be a a wake up call for all of us to learn about self hosting, privacy and ownership of devices and services.
@parisba shared but you should ask yourself why you have made yourself so dependent. If you have been working and programming intensively for 20 years, it shouldm't be a problem to run your own Nextcloud, which works wonderfully with Apple Devices.
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But you had backups of all content?
@parisba sadly, your best bet is to hire a lawyer that is specialized in these cases.
Friend of mine had a similar thing happening with their professional account on one of the big social media platforms. Nothing helped except this.
I hope you get your account back.
@parisba Very sorry about this. Some advice: Email Tim Cook’s office. tcook@apple.com. You’ll likely receive some correspondence from corporate executive relations, who can typically escalate your case in some way. It’s a long shot, but worth a try.
@parisba sadly I no longer know anyone who still works in Apple to pass this on to.
@parisba Oh, this makes me nervous! I'm about to migrate both a 2013 Macbook Air and a 2017 iPhone X to new equivalents that I've bought, and I have two Apple IDs at the moment (Apple's fault, NOT mine). I'd noticed that there was some new "one account" thing going on, and I was already jumpy about this. Now I think it would be wise to read your article... :(
@parisba very thankful for my hard drives 😳
@parisba I feel for you. I had this shit happen to me on PayPal. I couldn't re-register my credit cards for years because I dared to log in from China in 2010 and they flagged the account as "suspicious". Good it was just PayPal.
Proves to me that I am somewhat right about my mindset of mostly staying away from golden products cages.
I wish you all the luck 🍀 to get your account and data back!
@parisba it starts with laptops and might continue with medical devices. We need to be loud about stuff like this!
@parisba apple is no better than google or facebook. I hope it was a lesson learned and your new nextcloud self hosted instance has a backup.
@parisba what a horrible situation to be in. Apple seems institutionally incapable to find a humane way to resolve something like this.
@parisba this reminds me the Brazil movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) . I wish you a speedy back to normal.
