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His complaints are that Apple only supports credit cards for age verification. Please read more carefully.
by bogdan 7mo ago
His complaints are that Apple only supports credit cards for age verification. Please read more carefully.
- bdcravens 7mo agoWhat process are other companies using?
- bogdan 7mo agoAmazon Developer sent me an email about this recently. They supported: * Passport * Identity Card * Driver's License It rejected my Driver's License and I gave up after that.
- jon-wood 7mo agoAt least in the UK it would be entirely legal for companies to use account age as a proxy for verifying you're over the age of 18. If your Apple account is over 18 then you probably are as well.
- gmac 7mo agoApple verified my account that very way this morning!
- causal 7mo agoI kind of prefer Credit Card over anything else if I have to do it. I give out my CC pretty regularly already so not much new PII to lose there. But it does sound like Apple has bugs to work out.
- dmantis 7mo agoYes. The point in the post is that it's very American to assume that every adult has a credit card. I'm in my thirties and I never had nor plan to have a credit card. I always have had only debit cards. In countries I've been raised and lived it's a sign of a poverty and total dependency on the bank with additional tax on your living, not an everyday tool like Americans perceive it. Debit cards can be given to an underage, so I suppose they don't accept it for this reason.
- zeroonetwothree 7mo ago20% of Americans don’t have a credit card
- nine_k 7mo agoFor many, obtaining a credit card just for the purposes of age verification, and not using it for shopping, feels easier than giving away their legal identifying information to a random third party. In the US you're usually inundated with offers to open a credit card (often pre-approved) right in your mailbox. Even if you're a poor recent immigrant, or something.
- bandrami 7mo agoIs the credit card issuer not a random third party?
- nine_k 7mo agoBanks are subject to much more scrutiny (regulations, audits) than a random company. Or maybe even a highly established company which you'd rather not give your identity to, something like Pornhub.
- dmantis 7mo agoProbably, but making a non-used CC just for using your own phone sound a bit weird, don't you think? And I don't criticize US way of living here, but Apple is an international company and could do better adjusting to local cultural habits. But maybe they just punish people for this stupid law in the first place which is totally understandable.
- aeyes 7mo agoCredit cards are a sign of poverty? Now that's a hot take. I feel in Europe having a credit card means the complete opposite, only "rich" people have credit cards. I have a credit card, I use it, I pay it off every month. Why am I seen as poor just because I have a credit card? It's just a tool. It spares me from needing to maintain a 10000$ emergency fund in my checking account.
- AndriyKunitsyn 7mo ago"My shepherd pokes me with a stick, but it's the tree's fault that this stick is so sharp".