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). ❤️
Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it.
i mean now you’re talking about trusting big tech (any big tech) with things like your home cameras and door locks. which to my mind is dumb to begin with. there are cameras that record to a hard drive and don’t touch the internet. and while a plain old deadbolt lock on your door isn’t 100% guaranteed security, how tf does tying it to a big tech company improve…anything?
i was talking about personal computing and data storage/access solutions. which, again, apple is a no-go. for any of that