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The Impossible Journey to Get an Apple Developer Account

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A software team spent nearly two months trying to create an Apple Developer account for a client, hitting wall after wall: spam-lost emails, a managed Apple ID that looks like an email but receives nothing, 502 errors, infinite redirect loops, and an enrollment review with no timeline or escalation path. Apple's fragmented systems made paying $100 per year feel impossible.

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