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From: Andrews <andrews@spam.net>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Piece of shit iOS has absolutely zero privacy for God's sake
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:55:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrews wrote on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:42:20 -0000 (UTC) :

> Doesn't Apple advertise privacy?
> Where is it?
> Is there a way to SKIP that privacy-robbing collection of your phone?

It's interesting that Apple trolls know NOTHING about Apple products.

FACT: Only Apple forces EVERYONE to give them their phone number.
Nobody else does that but Apple. Not Microsoft. Not Google. Just Apple.

So I called up Apple and asked why it's impossible to use an iPad without
having to give the Apple mothership a valid phone number for them to abuse.

Apple said, effectively, most of its customers love having no privacy.

Specifically they said that the "find my" garbage requires the phone
number, so, they said it was to "protect me" even though I was rather clear
that I will never need a "find my" mechanism in my life.

If I lose the iPad, so what.
I lose nothing but an iPad.

Big deal.
I don't even have biometrics or a passcode on the thing.

They can have it. 
Anyway, the fact remains Apple is the only common consumer operating system
vendor who requires your phone number just to set up your device for apps.

Even though there is no privacy on any Apple device, there was a secret way
to get the iPad set up with a new account not associated with another
account. Sort of.

 <https://i.postimg.cc/VvtMXcL2/noprivacy01.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/HLjrQC63/noprivacy02.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/P57XnvMz/noprivacy03.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/TPSp0HSx/noprivacy04.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/1XWx0bCc/noprivacy05.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/6Q7Q8fQm/noprivacy06.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/bYRqNBTv/noprivacy07.jpg>

Betcha the Apple trolls don't know that secret either.