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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: iPhone 17 Air completely port-free
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:33:33 -0700
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On 2025-03-16 14:00, Marion wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:13:43 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :
> 
> 
>>> It works. Herd animal iPhone owners line up outside the Apple store 
>>> because they can't wait to ditch their old iPhones for the new ones!
>>
>> Rather than considering something gimmicky like that...
> 
> Personally, I think it's Apple's way to give the finger to the EU by
> designing a phone that relies *even more!* on Apple's servers to work.

This is utter nonsense.

iPhones work fine without any connection to Apple's servers.