Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’ve been an Apple customer for 35 years. Had an Apple account as long as Apple has had such things. A few years ago (specifically, when Apple started retiring 32-bit apps from the App Store) I saw where Apple was going and created a dedicated account for my Apple ID that’s separate from the one I use for my contact for Apple services.
If Apple locked me out of my account today, I’d lose access to 14 years of app purchases on that account. That’s about it? And at some point I started using an alternative ID for some of my purchases, so I’d only lose access to some of them. And of course, I now keep copies of everything backed up, since they could vanish from Apple’s servers at any time.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You seem a bit dependent on a single provider. Maybe not putting your eggs in one basket might be better… Or two baskets, as it were, with eggs from the same chicken.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Apple is the only provider of Apple IDs.
Other yhan that, I’m not sure what gave you the impression I’m dependent on a single provider?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
No reason.
Asetru@feddit.org 3 days ago
That means they are only depending on apple for the one thing only apple provides, which is app purchases on the Apple platform. Everything else they have locally or backed up somewhere else. It’s literally their point that they’re independent despite having used the platform for so long.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Lol seriously…
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“I’ve been buying all my oranges from the orange store for 35 years.”
“Boy you don’t eat turkey, do you?”
???