XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: andrews@spam.net   
      
   I'm setting up an iPhone for someone and after setting it up without a   
   login/password, she wants to add apps from the app store. Sigh.   
      
   I already was forced by Apple to set it up with a Wi-Fi access point, which   
   isn't too bad as even Android tablets would need to have Wi-Fi access to be   
   used (although only an iOS device *requires* it for the initial setup!).   
      
   This lack of privacy on an iOS device is simply astounding.   
   Yet Apple lies about privacy in their advertising.   
      
   Why don't the idiot consumers realize they're being lied to by Apple?   
   Anyway, it's an iPad so I'm stuck with the total loss of privacy.   
      
   So I'm at this moment creating an account which allows me to give bogus   
   information for most of the data (which insists on a last name & DOB).   
      
   But the lack of privacy on an iOS device rears its ugly head with the   
   verification process - which - as far as I can tell - requires your phone!   
       
      
   WTF?   
      
   Doesn't Apple advertise privacy?   
   Where is it?   
      
   Why is it that *every* other common consumer operating system can be set up   
   without giving the mothership your phone - except Apple's POS iOS setup?   
      
   Is there a way to SKIP that privacy-robbing collection of your phone?   
      
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