XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-07-05 20:56, Marion wrote:   
   > I have an iPad 10th generation on iPadOS 18.5 that I've had for oh, about a   
   > year or so, where over that time frame without an Apple Account set up on   
   > it, I learned the MAGA Apple trolls didn't realize all the apps will die.   
   >   
   > Yup. They die. The Apple trolls have no idea how iOS really works.   
   > I know how iOS works because I test the system to see how it works.   
   >   
   > Almost every native app on that iPad will die eventually, one by one,   
   > because it wants an update that you can't get from the operating system   
   > updates and since you don't have an Apple ID you can't get that update.   
   >   
   > So the app just dies.   
   > Every single one of them dies over time.   
   >   
   > One by one.   
   > It's only been a year of no Apple ID & they're already starting to die.   
   >   
   > What this proves pretty much is that not only does the iPad start out as a   
   > brain-dead dumb terminal, but over time, without the Apple Account, it gets   
   > dumber and dumber until it becomes essentially inert.   
      
   So?   
      
   Get an Apple Account just to update apps.   
      
   Problem solved.   
      
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