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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Setting up an iPad without an AppleID
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 07:29:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew wrote on Mon, 5 Aug 2024 03:41:12 -0000 (UTC) :

> Since my killfilter automatically deletes anything Alan Baker sends, I
> looked up his original post using the canonical search engine for this ng.
>  <http://tinyurl.com/nova-misc-phone-mobile-iphone>
> 
>  *Setting up an iPad without an AppleID*
>  <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=16576&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#16576>

Holy Jesus mother of God... I'm about to complement Alan Baker!

While Alan Baker proved that iOS can't be activated without connecting to
Apple's privacy-robbing Cupertino mothership tracking servers, Alan Baker
also proved that iOS *can* be set up without creating an Apple ID!

Kudos to Alan Baker. I'm impressed. What he claimed worked, worked!
a. You must connect to Apple's mainframes to activate the iPad, but, 
b. You do not have to create an Apple ID to use the iPad standalone.

What's nice about NOT having an Apple ID is that I can more easily test the
statement that nothing that you like about iOS works without the Internet.

Nonetheless, I did set up the iPad on the Internet but without an Apple ID.
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