David Murphy

When I asked the bot to meet me halfway and refund one of the payments, as I had just paid $99 for a year’s subscription, the bot got confused and ended the conversation. Footnote: Apple’s revenues for 2024 were $391.04 billion. Nice to know I contributed £34.98 of pure profit towards that.

Otter’s advice, dispensed by a bot, was to take out any future subscription direct with Otter. They also couldn’t offer me a refund as “Otter can't process refunds for Apple store purchases”, which is fair enough.

I escalated it, spoke to Thomas (he refused to give me his surname), who just repeated the same thing. No way of escalating this further, so no denying the fact Apple had taken £34.98 of my money and given me nothing for it, just check the small print next time.

I called Apple, who were very helpful, and within 24 hours, refunded two of the payments. Great, but what about the other two? I called again and was told that because it was more than 60 days since the first two payments had been made, the window to claim a refund had passed, so nothing doing.

Since then I’ve made four monthly payments to Apple of £17.49 each, but a week or so ago, I realised that the Pro subscription hadn’t been applied to my account as I got a warning saying I’d hit my limit of 300 minutes, which is what you get for free.

I’ve been using the Otter transcription app on my iPhone for a while now and in October, decided to upgrade to the Pro version, via the app and the App Store.

Here’s a cautionary tale re Apple.

Family split tonight. Mum and eldest child watching random stuff next door, me and younger child (both in their 20s) watching the darts. I think I know who's having the most fun...

Ooh intriguing thanks

Side note: I tried to cut & paste my last post from a message in my family WhatsApp, didn't work for some reason. Then Swiftkey reminded me how brilliant it is, recreating the message one key press per word. Other predictive typing apps are available but Swiftkey was the first and is still awesome

I'm very late to Ted Lasso but 1 episode in and it's obvious why everyone raves about it.
His main strength is motivation and I apologize I'm only one episode in but this line:
"So do you believe in ghosts Ted?"
"I do but I think the most important thing is that the ghosts believe in themselves."

I have had the best time this afternoon with these lovely people. Not sure how many of them are on here but.mm

Three days, three Xmas meet-ups, which is probably two too many at my age but this is getting me home...

open.spotify.com/track/0R2sCX...

Thank you! If creative equals messy then yes though I do clear the decks from time to time. And the food wasn't too shabby thanks 😃

In a glass half full sort of way this is perfect (crap) weather for prepping in a warm kitchen with some music on. Quiche for lunch, stuffed mushrooms and lasagne later. And a salad that creates more mess than everything else combined

Sleeping cockapoo

I'm new here so hoping that photos of flopped dogs don't cause offence. This is Alf. He will look very different tomorrow. Tomorrow is Groomdog Day

Probably the last time I'll post twice in an hour but Twitter account deactivated

Thanks for all the follows, thought I shd post something. I was never that prolific on Twitter so not sure how much of a platform this will be for me to be honest but we'll see and I'm glad it's offering X leavers somewhere with a similar UI even if everyone has to rebuild their follower base