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With "free" services like Facebook and Twitter I can understand pulling the rug off from under the feet of some unlucky customer. It will generate bad PR, some
by yason 5y ago
With "free" services like Facebook and Twitter I can understand pulling the rug off from under the feet of some unlucky customer. It will generate bad PR, some social media outcry, but the losses still mostly remain in the intangible domain.
But cases like this where the customer actually pays real money for and has accounted assets in Apple's system this is absolutely inexcusable. No face-to-face business could do this or they would be sued to extinction even in the lesser litigious countries.
- twobitshifter 5y agoEh, even Facebook is something where the value lost to users will be too great to just have ML model autoban people. They offer email and photo storage. Getting banned from gmail, which is also a free service would be terrible for many reasons.
- dghughes 5y ago>and has accounted assets in Apple's system But really what do they have? They rented something and now they lost access. If they had physical media on CD, DVD, or even stored locally as a stand-alone file that would be different. Yes I'd be enraged but people have feared for years subscriptions and no physical media lead to this. Games and music have gone from disks, CDs, DVDs, to subscriptions. Today it's become so bad that even physical devices are now seen as owned by its manufacturer and you're not permitted to repair it or even open it to look, if you can mange to open your device.