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"After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Apple’s own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of dollars on devices, apps, conferences, and services, I have been locked out of my personal and professional digital life with no explanation and no recourse."
hey.paris
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
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, effectivel...

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At my last job we had an iPhone & 2 iPads tied to the same apple account. We used the phone to text customers. Apple decided we were spamming people. Account locked. Couldn't log out of the devices, get updates, install new apps etc. The device became paperweights basically, no way to recover them, even through DFU mode.
↩ replying to dot GNT
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