Did you try googling "delete apple id"? It's pretty straightforward. Given that, what point are you trying to make?

There is a way to delete your data from Google or ms. Not Apple. BTW, there is no way to delete apple Id. Seriously try doing it. You cannot.

Not sure why you are being downvoted, but as someone who did try deleting an appleid, there is no self service way of doing so. Basically ended up removing all possible data; and filling the rest with fake values. Finally I changed the password to some random string. Not sure how much aux/opaque data remains that I could not see (eg location services), but this was secondary throwaway account, so I didnt care much.

It is sad hn users are too much apple biased.

This must be one of those "alternative facts" I keep hearing about.

I literally just now created, and then deleted, an Apple Id. It's trivial. Why do you think it isn't?

How did u delete? Care to post a screenshot?

you actually don't believe that they delete your data, do you?

You can call AppleCare and have your Apple ID deleted any time you want.

It should be available, at least in the EU, by May, if it isn’t already. I think it is a requirement of GDPR.

Similar measures have been implemented in a number of european countries for years, I think originally in France. As far as I am aware, GDPR only standardises these laws and applies them to all EU states. Plus it adds a fine large enough for companies to actually care.

The fines are indeed substantial: up to 4% of annual turnover. On top of thay they can force you to shut down the service in question until remediated. For an e-commerce company that can be even worse than the 4%.

Being fully compliant with GDPR is a mountain of work even if you thought you were doing all the right things before.

In practice, small companies/ start-ups might not be audited / reported / pursued very much but: a) you'll never know and b) at least all the big tech and e-commerce companies are smack on in the sights of several data protection and competition(!) authorities already. We're all scrambling to be compliant in time.

Source: first hand account from running the GDPR compliance project in e-commerce company.

The fine is actually 4% of global annual revenue, or EUR100,000, whichever is greater.

Oh fair point. I propose we all start calling the 100kEUR minimum the "start-up clause". ;)

Try it. It is not available.

For the moment not possible.