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New comment by BeauGiles in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

BeauGiles — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:41:01 +0000

In Australia, we often have bonus offers on Apple Gift Cards, from the merchant/retailer.

This could include a "real" cash discount of ~8-10% (eg, buy a $100 card for $92), or loyalty points.

Our supermarkets often have a "20x" bonus points promotion, which is effectively 10% off a future shop - eg, buy a $100 Apple gift card, get $10 off a future shop in loyalty points. Buy $1000, get $100 off, etc.

Or, if you're a frequent flyer, earn Qantas points - buy a $2000 gift card, get 20,000 in QFF points - that on its own is some one way/return domestic flights, or halfway to Honolulu (one way), if you were going to spend $2000 on a new iPhone, Mac, iCloud etc anyway.

https://gcdb.com.au/gc/apple/ has been documenting all the recent offers for Australia.

New comment by BeauGiles in "iMessage for Android"

BeauGiles — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:42:03 +0000

Thanks - I also downloaded it directly from the developers site, which appears to be an older version (v1.2.1) http://www.huluwa.org/imessage/

So I wasn't sure if things had changed in later versions of the app.

New comment by BeauGiles in "iMessage for Android"

BeauGiles — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:22:00 +0000

iCloud isn't nearly as exciting as iMessage, with the majority of iCloud services just being WebDAV (bookmarks, etc), CardDAV, CalDAV, IMAP, etc.

New comment by BeauGiles in "iMessage for Android"

BeauGiles — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:21:15 +0000

Submitted to Mobile-Sandbox; http://mobilesandbox.org/xml_report_static/?q=357339

Only connects to Apple itself, And

http://alog.umeng.com/app_logs http://alog.umeng.co/app_logs http://oc.umeng.com/check_config_update http://oc.umeng.co/check_config_update

Which is 'apparently' a chinese analytics provider.