Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card

• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been an Apple customer for 35 years. Had an Apple account as long as Apple has had such things.

  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?

  No reason.

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  • Asetru@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not the apps that came with it or the infrastructure that supports providing those apps to devices or the devices upon which those apps or services run?

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m still missing your point.

        I’ve got all my apps I’ve downloaded backed up, at least for macOS. iOS… easier to grab the older ones off a pirate repository once Apple stops listing them.

        Are you trying to say that everyone should be running Debian Stable without non-free on commodity x86 or RISC-V hardware with only open source hardware gerbers and no proprietary chips?

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol seriously…

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  • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “I’ve been buying all my oranges from the orange store for 35 years.”

    “Boy you don’t eat turkey, do you?”

    ???

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