Even if this works, everyone cannot go through this process. Every Apple Fanboy be like, “this is why you have to buy two of every Apple product so if you get locked out of one half you still have your backup”
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ccunning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Their first party account is on their blog here and is an interesting read:
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
The post was updated yesterday with the following:
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.
inbeesee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
londos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
bonenode@piefed.social 3 days ago
Even if they get back and correct all this, I hope the author learns a lesson and begins exporting his digital footprint to other services.
witten@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s pretty clear he’ll go back to Apple like a dog to vomit.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Uh … yeah, it’s his livelihood. He writes books on programming with Apple machines. Of course he’s still going to do the things he’s been doing his whole life.
ccunning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah - this really confused me. Why did they make a second update on the 14th when the first update said they’d hear back on the 15th?
kescusay@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He’s in Australia. It was already the 15th there when he posted that, but the person you’re responding to isn’t in Australia and the blog they copied and pasted from probably compensated for time zones.
carrylex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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