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). ❤️
Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID.
I am writing this as a desperate measure.
It’s not just Apple though, is it? I suspect the vast majority of Windows users are logged in with a Microsoft account, and every Android phone uses a Google account. Sure, there are those of us who use Linux for our computers, and Graphene/Lineage on our phones, but we’re a tiny minority.
You can use an Android phone without logging in to your Google account.
I tried this a few years ago.
And even if you do use an MS account to log into Windows, can they really lock you out of your own hardware? i use local account and I will never log into Windows with an MS account.
That’s the risk you run buying into the whole crapple ecosystem.
It’s not just Apple though, is it? I suspect the vast majority of Windows users are logged in with a Microsoft account, and every Android phone uses a Google account. Sure, there are those of us who use Linux for our computers, and Graphene/Lineage on our phones, but we’re a tiny minority.
You can use an Android phone without logging in to your Google account.
I tried this a few years ago.
And even if you do use an MS account to log into Windows, can they really lock you out of your own hardware? i use local account and I will never log into Windows with an MS account.