XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 20:36:55 -0700, Alan  wrote:   
      
   >On 2024-07-09 20:15, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> We are talking about computers that are no longer computers, but are   
   >> being turned into dumb terminals because they will not perform   
   >> functions that a stand-alone computer normall performs, like saving a   
   >> document, without being tethered, not merely to the Internet, but to a   
   >> particular site on  the internet owned by the vendor of the computer's   
   >> operating system - like asn Apple computer not working unless it is   
   >> linked to the Apple company's web site, or a Microsoft computer not   
   >> working unless it is linked to the Microsoft company's web site.   
   >   
   >There is no Apple computer or device made today that has that problem.   
      
   There is no Apple computer or device made today that has a non-Apple   
   common computer operating system.   
      
   Oh, I forgot Schrodinger's Apple OS.   
      
      
      
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