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> it's just that if you sell their data (or get hacked) the email you get is useless. The parent commenter is correctly pointing out that Apple would be able t
by baddox 7y ago
> it's just that if you sell their data (or get hacked) the email you get is useless.
The parent commenter is correctly pointing out that Apple would be able to disable the email for other reasons as well.
- m3kw9 7y agoBy that logic Apple can disable your iPhone for other reasons etc etc
- tolmasky 7y agoThis would be a customer action — it affects one person. Unless you’re implying they’d disable the phone of every user of a certain app or something to that effect. With these emails they could trivially, and surgically, cut off a developer from every customer. It is a one-to-many action that also has no obvious other side effects (unlike bricking users phones). Not sure where I stand with this, but wanting to point out that the added powers this gives Apple are very real and different from the ones they had before (again, maybe this is a good thing, but it’s undeniable that it is a different thing).
- baddox 7y agoI think the concern is that Apple could exert influence over third party apps/networks because they control access to all Apple users. That problem doesn’t really exist when it comes to Apple disabling entire iPhones of certain users.
- caseysoftware 7y agoThey absolutely could technically. The more important questions are: - Is there a big enough reason to motivate them to do so? - If given a "legitimate" justification, would they? If either of those are "yes" then the question we need to know is: "Is there any appeal, oversight, etc?"
- vinay_ys 7y agoThis is how it starts.
- NightlyDev 7y agoAlso, this is probably ment to further lock users into the Apple ecosystem. It's not like you can ask Apple to forward emails to your own email server if you decide that you no longer want to use Apple.
- tinus_hn 7y agoYou can access iCloud email through IMAP/SMTP on any operating system you want, just like you can access the calendar through CalDAV and the address book through CardDAV. Apple isn’t Microsoft.
- oefrha 7y agoWhich is provably false. (1) AppleID email address doesn’t have to be iCloud mail; they’ll be forwarding to my mail server in the first place. (2) iCloud account is free, whether or not you decide to stop using Apple devices doesn’t affect that. (3) They said Sign in with Apple will be available on non-Apple platforms. (4) I doubt third parties can’t offer an option to decouple Apple entirely if you so choose.
- sieabahlpark 7y agoUntil they remove the forward to your inbox?
- yoz-y 7y agoIf you can see the forwarding address, then you could probably somehow contact the company to switch your account. Not extremely secure and would require more validation than simply knowing the random bits of the address, but doable.
- zaphirplane 7y agoYour gmail, Hotmail, yahoo inbox ! Who can disable your account for some undisclosed slight
- addicted 7y agoYou can also provide your own email address. The choice is yours. Which threat do you think is greater? I think Apple shutting down your access is a legitimate concern. Yet Apple is the only one who has taken any steps to protect the customer here. The reality is we are unlikely to see other major competitors to Apple find a better alternative because their entire business is built on exploiting user data. And 3rd parties who create a similar system are unlikely to be successful because they don’t have the clout to convince websites to incorporate them.
- righteous 7y agoExactly. And I find it interesting this is like the same value prop Craigslist has offered for about 15 years. It’s an old idea but refreshing to it modernized for today’s digital consumers.