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Apple Walks Back UNiDAYS Verification Requirement for U.S. Education Store
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Adobe never approved me with an .edu address. I had to submit a photo ID badge.
Who even issues email anymore? Obviously it is much simpler for students to just submit an email address and use that, rather than try to run your own email service. My own university stopped using university email 10 years ago.
I've definitely had to verify my education status with apple online ordering before ? they HAVE done this
He’s clearly refering to schools issuing .edu addresses, he’s not saying that nobody uses email at all these days.
I think someone just wanted to tell us he was a lawyer…jeez..
"Who even issues email anymore?"
Is the quote. You might want it to say something else, but it says what it says. #misinformation
….wow….
if I’m ever accused of a crime and you are the last attorney on the planet, just let me go to jail…
I think it's a bit of an eyebrow-raiser that the science has shown that iPads and laptops actually hurt education, and yet we keep promoting it. Schools keep cramming them down our throats, even though studies have shown that books, pencils/pens and paper are superior.
Maybe they don't want students who graduated years ago to still get tons of discounts dishonestly in the name of the university?
Imagine a university having such disrespect for alumni that it would spend money to alienate them.
I'd imagine this is going to be extremely challenging for the US. There are well over a thousand institutions of higher learning in the US, and that doesn't even take into account grade-school kids, teachers, etc.
@baypharm why you dislike? UniDAYS is just another marketing company selling their service to APPLE. Check their profile and you will know.
At the same time, when we register, they are collecting our data and they will have a list of the "customers" in hand. They are selling this list.
At the same time, when we register, they are collecting our data and they will have a list of the "customers" in hand. They are selling this list.
Not in the United States, nope. I’ve been buying from their education store for decades (first as college student, then later as my wife has worked at various colleges and high schools), and there’s never been any mechanism by which Apple could verify my status or my wife’s, and at no point did I even use an .edu address.
These aren't university purchases. What money are they spending? If you aren't a current student, teacher or faculty, why should you receive a lifetime discount when Apple specifically states that is not part of the deal? Of course, Apple has been looking the other way for decades in order to make Apple products the choice for students in higher learning and that plan has worked great for them.
Apple claims they do not want to give our personal information to third party companies to market with and make money off. The Apple totally contradict this by making people use unidays who are using our information for marketing and other purposes.
I feel Apple stopped the implementation of this for one main reason. Customer backlash.
The unidays system seems unreliable at best from what people here have said, goes against Apples security policies and it was Apple admitting that they knew people were cheating the system.
Apple's security policies are well known to be a total joke at this point in time anyway. Our trust in Apple security is no longer there, purely due to APple's recent screwups.
The moral here? If enough people stand up to Apple and are willing to go the class action lawsuit route and/or create a PR nightmare for Apple, then Apple will listen. Not because Apple wants to, but because it's hurting Apple's bottom line.
I feel Apple stopped the implementation of this for one main reason. Customer backlash.
The unidays system seems unreliable at best from what people here have said, goes against Apples security policies and it was Apple admitting that they knew people were cheating the system.
Apple's security policies are well known to be a total joke at this point in time anyway. Our trust in Apple security is no longer there, purely due to APple's recent screwups.
The moral here? If enough people stand up to Apple and are willing to go the class action lawsuit route and/or create a PR nightmare for Apple, then Apple will listen. Not because Apple wants to, but because it's hurting Apple's bottom line.
It is just Apple choosing which professions they value more highly than others.
We all know what this is, but I can not say it or this post will be removed.
One has to go through hoops and loops to get a military discount when one could just like he is a student.
