XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: andrews@spam.net   
      
   Andrews wrote on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:42:20 -0000 (UTC) :   
      
   > Doesn't Apple advertise privacy?   
   > Where is it?   
   > Is there a way to SKIP that privacy-robbing collection of your phone?   
      
   It's interesting that Apple trolls know NOTHING about Apple products.   
      
   FACT: Only Apple forces EVERYONE to give them their phone number.   
   Nobody else does that but Apple. Not Microsoft. Not Google. Just Apple.   
      
   So I called up Apple and asked why it's impossible to use an iPad without   
   having to give the Apple mothership a valid phone number for them to abuse.   
      
   Apple said, effectively, most of its customers love having no privacy.   
      
   Specifically they said that the "find my" garbage requires the phone   
   number, so, they said it was to "protect me" even though I was rather clear   
   that I will never need a "find my" mechanism in my life.   
      
   If I lose the iPad, so what.   
   I lose nothing but an iPad.   
      
   Big deal.   
   I don't even have biometrics or a passcode on the thing.   
      
   They can have it.   
   Anyway, the fact remains Apple is the only common consumer operating system   
   vendor who requires your phone number just to set up your device for apps.   
      
   Even though there is no privacy on any Apple device, there was a secret way   
   to get the iPad set up with a new account not associated with another   
   account. Sort of.   
      
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
      
   Betcha the Apple trolls don't know that secret either.   
      
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