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Comment by iamleppert

5 years ago

Apple will also completely lock you out of all your movies, music, etc if you owe them any balance, even $1.

For some reason when you purchase something, it’s not instantly charged to your card. It takes a few days and if it doesn’t go through, they lock all your prior purchases, and demand you use a computer to remedy the situation (I was using Apple TV).

Apple is not a company that messes around when you owe them ANY money. They will shut you down with no mercy.

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withinboredom  5 years ago

When I moved from the US, I spent six hours on the phone with Apple trying to figure out why we couldn’t move our family subscriptions from the US to the new country. I bounced around from one support tech department to the next. Eventually they told me they’d call me back. About ten minutes later I received a call from a support VP, she was able to discover I had a failed payment on OSX, for $12. She wrote it off and transferred the accounts to the new country.

It was pretty entertaining in retrospect.

matheusmoreira  5 years ago

> your movies, music, etc

It was never really yours to begin with. Apple sold you a very limited license to enjoy their content at their convenience. They can revoke this privilege at any time and for any reason or no reason.

  • mvanbaak  5 years ago

    It's not even _their_ content. It's _their_ platform to give _you_ access to content they have licensed with the publisher of the content.

    But yeah, if you dont pay them, they will revoke this privileges.

  • Joeri  5 years ago

    Regrettably when it comes to popular media there is no way to permanently buy a copy to access on a mobile device of your choice. The only way to do so is to buy a bluray, and it is not allowed to circumvent the copy protection to transfer it from there to the mobile device.

    There isn’t really an option to buy buy instead of rent buy in many situations, so the blame falls squarely on the media companies for failing to provide reasonable options, not the customer for choosing the best option from a bad list.

sneak  5 years ago

Joke's on them, as I was able to get around their silly block by simply torrenting new copies of the music and movies I had once paid for.