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mabeledo

@ mabeledo @lemmy.world

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12h ago

"Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"
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mabeledo @lemmy.world 12h ago
I think you are missing the bigger point here.
Most smartphone users cannot operate a local backup using a RPi. In fact, most users worldwide cannot afford to buy and run a RPi 24/7.
Most smartphone users are not able to afford a Google Drive plan that holds all their pics.
Most smartphone users are just not literate enough to even understand where they pics are, or that they may need a backup plan at all.
You cannot apply your life experiences to quite literally a billion people for whom smartphones are likely the only thing with a screen they own. And yeah, among those, plenty of iPhone users who bought it for cheap or got it for free with their cellular plan.
Yeah, we get it, you know what is needed and how it needs to be done, and you have the cash to do it. But maybe you should realize that you are the exception, a tiny minority.

1d ago

"Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

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mabeledo @lemmy.world 1d ago

Now you are assuming that most people are literate enough to do any of those things.

If that was true, repair stores making money off dirty phone USB connectors wouldn’t be a thing.

Regardless, cost is still a thing.

2d ago

"Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

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mabeledo @lemmy.world 2d ago

That seems to be a very North American point of view, as it ignores the fact that many people worldwide cannot afford not to own a smartphone.

There are billions out there who must use smartphones because entire economies run on apps like WeChat, WhatsApp, or Line, from government appointments to QR based payments. Slowly but surely, many countries are moving towards smartphone centric societies. Not saying it is good or bad, just the way it is.

A sizeable part of those societies have to weight the price of a backup plan, which is, let’s say, $2 a month forever, or else they will lose access to their backup data. And when they have spent $300-$500 on a device that will have to last them for 7 to 10 years, $24 a year is hard to justify.