XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-12-31 18:26, Andrew wrote:   
   > Arno Welzel wrote on Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:39:51 +0100 :   
   >   
   >>> But this thread is about privacy and security and there's nothing less   
   >>> private than logging into the Apple walled garden mothership 24/7/365.   
   >>>   
   >>>    *Apple's walled garden _murdered_ privacy*   
   >>   
   >> As did Google and Microsoft.   
   >>   
   >> So go ahead and create a fake account without personal information.   
   >   
   > Why do you need a Google Account, Frank?   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   > a. Apple's iOS requires an intimate connection to the mothership;   
   > b. Google's Android does not!   
   >   
   > That's a huge difference in terms of privacy since an Android phone works   
   > just fine without putting a Google Account on that phone.   
   >   
   > An iPhone can't even make phone calls without first connecting to the   
   > mothership and even after that, if you don't put a mothership account on   
   > that iPhone, you can't even install apps so it's even more brain dead.   
   >   
   > An Android phone works just fine WITHOUT a mothership account on it.   
   > An iPhone does not.   
   >   
   > Big difference in privacy.   
      
   Except for downloading apps, you never need to use your Apple Account.   
      
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