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Subject: Re: phone migration
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:05:37 -0700
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On 2024-07-20 09:46, Andrew wrote:
> Jolly Roger wrote on 19 Jul 2024 19:06:21 GMT :
> 
>>>>> The primitive toy iPhone is incapable of migrating over the EXACT
>>>>> location of every folder and every app icon (and every widget &
>>>>> shortcut too).
>>>>
>>>> False.
>>>
>>> When I signed back into iCloud on my new iPhone the apps from the
>>> previous phone did not migrate over.
>>
>> These dingbat trolls don't know the difference between transferring your
>> data from the old phone (or a backup of it) to the new one and setting
>> up the phone as new and signing into iCloud. The former results in the
>> EXACT location of every folder and every app (and every widget &
>> shortcut too) being transferred to the new device. The latter naturally
>> does not.
> 
> Heh heh heh... Now that we've established how the dumb-terminal brain-dead
> iOS does it, how do you think Android re-installs apps, Jolly Roger, with
> all the app icons, widgets, homescreen folders & even the data itself in
> EXACTLY the same locations on the new phone as they were on the old phone.
> 
> I'll wait for you to tell us...
> 
> HINT: No need for the Internet (i.e., no Google, no login, no cloud).
>        It just works.

You can do exactly that with an iOS device.