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No matter whether the OP is in the right or not, it's worth considering Apple or Google accounts as a Single Point of Failure in your personal disaster recovery
by fmajid 4y ago
No matter whether the OP is in the right or not, it's worth considering Apple or Google accounts as a Single Point of Failure in your personal disaster recovery plan. There have been plenty of stories about Google capriciously disabling accounts with no redress possible, so this goes well beyond Apple.
What are the implications of losing your Apple account?
- loss of apps, licensed content
- inability to perform software upgrades, essentially turning your computers and devices into paperweights
- loss of sync for things like contacts, keychain
In the case of Google, I'd lose my Voice account that is the one registered with banks, credit cards and the like (I try to minimize my exposure to Google and tried to use Twilio instead, even paying for it it is very unreliable).
- alymaly 4y agoYes, I try to use a third-party service. But here's where I made another mistake - using authorization through Apple - that created a huge problem on several occasions, because it's impossible to authorize in the app at all.
- salawat 4y agoThis is the American regulatory state working as designed btw. It's why the Government likes to let large actors coalesce. Easier to keep a few big companies compliant than a flood of little guys. ...which is why if you don't want to see this sort of thing we have to get away from tech giants, and diversify.