Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom (9to5mac.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:21AM from the stranger-things dept.

For some reason, Apple's website where you can manage your Apple ID (appleid.apple.com) is blocking users of Linux browsers from accessing it. From a report: Having access to the website is important to manage things such as payment information, two-factor authentication, and other account details. Even though the number of Linux users accessing the website must be relatively small compared to other operating systems, some iPhone users who use Linux on the desktop noticed the issue. This behavior was first explained by user Alexander Martin on Mastodon. He discovered that when the browser reports itself as being a Linux browser, Apple's website will block the access by throwing a "Bad Gateway" error.

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Re:Is it malice... by fermion · 2019-02-22 04:12 · Score: 1, Interesting

Apple overemgineers thie site and it makes no sense. They are one of the few companies that still, for instance, forces you to use an App instead of their site,
In this case it is likely a badly implemented design decision.

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Re:But not Android by Albanach · 2019-02-22 04:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

Fortune.com reported over 700 million iPhones in use in 2017 with an expected billion within a few years.
If only a tenth of one percent of those iPhones were owned by someone who uses Linux on their desktop. you have a million folk impacted.
Sure, Linux is a niche, but when you're the size of Apple, even small percentages quickly become big numbers. Let's be conservative ans say just 20% of Linux users buy their iPhone new - that still points to 140 million in revenue, not including any app store sales.