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1. I've since learned that the reason this happened could be due to an unusual confluence of events including Apple Card, autopay, and the online Apple Store.

2. The disabling of iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts, and they have a team dedicated to handling these account de-activation issues. (I think this is absurd, which is why I am drawing attention to it.)

Comment · 5 years ago

Nope -- iCloud was not past due. It is an Apple Card policy.

Comment · 5 years ago

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention; I'll write up some more details shortly.

Comment · 5 years ago

Actually, Sign in with Apple is one of the only things that still works.

Comment · 6 years ago

As the author of The Best, I am quite surprised and confused by Rhinehart's suggestion that the piece marks the "death" of Silicon Valley. He does not seem to understand me or what I was saying at all.

Also, "my ilk" are the very people he praises, including Paul Graham and YC founders pre-2012. I'm tempted to write a rebuttal, because while I agree that there was a marked change in the startup community around that time, I think it happened for reasons very different from the ones Rhinehart outlines in his piece.

(For reference: https://dcurt.is/the-best )

Comment · 8 years ago

First maintenance, then fixing bugs, and finally new features.

Comment · 8 years ago

Nope.

Working on it right now, in fact.

Comment · 10 years ago

It's not a marketing gimmick--it's a promise. It's how I want my own blog to be treated.

We announced this publicly so that you now know: if you write on Svbtle, your content is vastly more likely to survive for a long time than if you used your own server (probably) or if you used another publishing startup.