Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
- Subject: Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
- From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:56:23 +0000
I'm not looking for anything of any sort back from my former
corporation. As I said, to get caught doing so, and I'd be doing
time.
What I'm trying to do, is to use my own personal name, address, phone
number and my GMail, to register as an Individual.
But because I, with all that same info, once registered as a
Corporation that at the time did exist, when I click that "Individual"
button, I don't recall the message I get but more or less I'm informed
that I'm not permitted to.
And again: registering a new Apple ID with a new email would work
around the problem, but then my history of radars would no longer be
attached to the Apple ID that I had in current use.
I've been filing Radars since Radar was made externally accessible at
all. I do not want to lose my reputation, as one who files good bug
reports. Just once I think was there a legitimate reply of user
error. Other than that, every last one of them was a legitimate,
verifiable bug, quite commonly with test cases.
I was doing Apple QA in 1989. My very first radar was to attach a
fifteen line remote rootkit to A/UX 2.0, because they set the
permissions wrong on just one file, then flatly refused to alter those
permissions:
"You know, the United States Air Force isn't going to want to
acquire $70,000,000.00
worth of A/UX 2.0 licenses, when they get wind of my rootkit."
"We'll let the Air Force take care of it."
I happened to look it up when I returned to Apple in 1995. My exploit
was not patched - again, by tightening the permissions of just one
file - until A/UX 3.0.
It's because of stuff like that, that while I prefer to do iOS coding,
what I actually advertise myself as, is a Process Architect.
The "P.E." part - Professional Engineer - means that I'm completely
cool working on the kind of code where my slightest mistake could get
a bunch of people killed.
I don't really enjoy that work, but I'm actually quite good at it.
Mike
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Scott Ellsworth
<email@hidden> wrote:
> +list
>
> I understand your frustration, but I do not see this as that big a deal to
> Apple. The total opportunity cost to them of their web app not supporting
> this change does not sound like something that would move a $13B/quarter
> profit needle. After all, you can get what you want from a new $100 dev id.
>
> I would suspect that they probably do not want to have the corporate asset
> (dev portal access) of a defunct company going to an individual rather than
> going through a bankruptcy court.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Michael Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hunter,
>>
>> I used the contact link on that Account Management page about a week ago.
>>
>> Of rather more concern to me, is that I filed a Radar two and a half
>> months ago, and no one has responded in any way.
>>
>> This leads me to believe that Apple does not triage reports having to
>> do with their web applications.
>>
>> Had apple provided a workaround - two minutes to alter one field in an
>> SQL database - just for me at any time during those two and a half
>> months, I would by now have a permanent desk job, quite likely an
>> office with a door I can shut, generous benefits, stock options and a
>> bunch of really nice people to hang out with all day.
>>
>> Instead I've been living on my Mom's couch, paying vast sums of money
>> to hang out in WiFi spots all the time, because I cannot convince my
>> Mom to permit me to use my own money to put Internet into her home,
>> and the main computer I actually use for my work, being powered off as
>> it is a workstation. I quite commonly refer to ten books per day, but
>> now I can't refer to any at all.
>>
>> Were Apple to but lift a finger to QA their code, even just a little
>> bit, quite likely their gross income would double within a year.
>>
>> Thanks For Letting Me Clear All That Up,
>>
>> Michael David Crawford P.E., Process Architect
>> Solving the Software Problem
>> http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
>> email@hidden
>> +1 (805) 235-1267
>>
>> While every diety hath the Insight to fortell the Future,
>> even G-d Almighty Himself possesseth not the Power to undo the Past.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Hunter Hillegas
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>> > Not sure why you don’t just use a different/new Apple ID to sign up for
>> > the iOS dev program but let’s say you can’t or don’t want to do that for
>> > whatever reason, you need to read this page:
>> >
>> > https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/account-management.html
>> >
>> > and use the contact link there to get in touch with the right folks. Be
>> > advised that recent DevCenter downtime might mean that the pages you need
>> > are still unavailable. In that case, be a bit more patient and try again in
>> > a few days.
>> >
>> > Good luck.
>> >
>> > On Aug 2, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Michael Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> >> My hope is to submit an _already_ complete App to the App Store, but I
>> >> _cannot_ do so, until I can change my developer type from Corporate to
>> >> Individual. To do so would be a State of California Felony, as
>> >> operation of a "Suspended Corporation" is regarded as a form of Money
>> >> Laundering.
>> >
>>
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