XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.privacy   
   From: andrews@nospam.net   
      
   Andrews wrote on Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:55:48 -0000 (UTC) :   
      
   > Betcha the Apple trolls don't know that secret.   
      
   It turns out that it's not possible to create a new iCloud account without   
   calling Apple personally and giving them your phone number to verify.   
      
   Not if there is already an iCloud account set up with your Android phone.   
   It's impossible to do it from your iPad device. You must talk to Apple.   
      
   And then you must identify yourself to Apple's satisfaction.   
   Just to set up an iCloud account on the iPad.   
      
   Which proves there is no privacy with Apple products. None.   
   No other operating system vendor has that privacy robbing requirement.   
      
   Not Google. Not Microsoft. Nobody.   
   Just Apple.   
      
   All to make their walled-garden work.   
   That is, you trade your privacy to get the walled garden to work.   
      
   Great deal.   
   For Apple.   
      
   What *they* do, is they set up the Apple account on their side.   
   This can only happen if you call them & identify yourself to them.   
      
   Only *after* Apple creates the iCloud account, can you then set it up.   
   Even after they've created the iCloud account over the phone, they still   
   require your phone number to verify that iCloud account on the iPad.   
      
   The trick is you can't do it with their iOS system prompts.   
   Nope. Won't work.   
      
   You *must* do it through the email app.   
   Go figure.   
      
   It's Apple so it doesn't have to make any sense.   
      
   In the end, you *can* create a new iCloud account but you have to trade   
   your privacy to do it with Apple products.   
      
   Apple brazenly lies about privacy.   
   There is no privacy on Apple products.   
      
   Proof.   
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
      
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