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   Message 72,374 of 72,997   
   badgolferman to Jolly Roger   
   Re: phone migration   
   20 Jul 24 20:48:08   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com   
      
   Jolly Roger  wrote:   
   > On 2024-07-20, Alan  wrote:   
   >> On 2024-07-20 09:46, Andrew wrote:   
   >>> Jolly Roger wrote on 19 Jul 2024 19:06:21 GMT :   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>> The primitive toy iPhone is incapable of migrating over the EXACT   
   >>>>>>> location of every folder and every app icon (and every widget &   
   >>>>>>> shortcut too).   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> False.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> When I signed back into iCloud on my new iPhone the apps from the   
   >>>>> previous phone did not migrate over.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> These dingbat trolls don't know the difference between transferring   
   >>>> your data from the old phone (or a backup of it) to the new one and   
   >>>> setting up the phone as new and signing into iCloud. The former   
   >>>> results in the EXACT location of every folder and every app (and   
   >>>> every widget & shortcut too) being transferred to the new device.   
   >>>> The latter naturally does not.   
   >>>   
   >>> Heh heh heh... Now that we've established how the dumb-terminal   
   >>> brain-dead iOS does it, how do you think Android re-installs apps,   
   >>> Jolly Roger, with all the app icons, widgets, homescreen folders &   
   >>> even the data itself in EXACTLY the same locations on the new phone   
   >>> as they were on the old phone.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'll wait for you to tell us...   
   >>>   
   >>> HINT: No need for the Internet (i.e., no Google, no login, no cloud).   
   >>> It just works.   
   >>   
   >> You can do exactly that with an iOS device.   
   >   
   > Apparently little Arlen  and his best buddy badgolferman have never   
   > heard of Quick Start - yet little Arlen constantly claims he knows more   
   > about Apple than anyone else.   
   >   
      
   Maybe you didn’t read the original message. I didn’t migrate the phone, the   
   IT technician did.   
      
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