Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:35:11 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

It's only Apple's operating systems that don't work in the real world
(which is the world that includes more than just the walled garden).

 I wonder what unreal world the people who buy Apple devices live in? I mean
there are billions of them.  They all seem living pretty normal lives. In fact I wonder if it's them who
live in the real world and not you. Just a thought.

You don't use the iPhone in the real world - because it doesn't work in the
real world (e.g., Linux is in the real word as is Windows as are iPhones
which are not registered to you so you don't know their AppleID password).
Apple doesn't support Linux working with iOS - Linux is in the real world.
At least Linux has libimobiledevice & iFuse to make it work with iOS, but
Windows (which is also in the real world) has neither of those two tools.
Hence the iPhone doesn't work in the real world, which includes Windows.
What you're missing is in order to punch holes in the walled garden, iPhone
users are forced to add all sorts of crutches so that the Apple device will
do anything useful in the real world, where even those crutches don't work.
An example of crutches to punch holes in the walled garden is iPhone users
add iTunes just to make the file transfer connection somewhat useful
between an iPhone & Windows. Android doesn't need any of those crutches.
On Android, bi-directional file transfer just works.
But not with an iPhone.
But iTunes only goes so far, so what iPhone users do to punch air holes in
their debilitating walled garden. You can't connect any device you want to.
Even with the iTunes crutch, iPhone users are still stuck in the walled
garden not being able to copy to/from anywhere given the AppleID
restriction (which is one of the major limitations of the walled garden).
What a lot of iPhone users do to punch holes in the walled garden is
install all sorts of non-Apple crutches, such as the iMazing crutch.
At least with the iMazing crutch, the iPhone/iPad just barely begins to
work in the real world where people transfer files from multiple devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMazing
But even with those crutches, there are hundreds of useful things an iPhone
can't do that every other operating system has no problem doing.
The end result is an iPhone is a toy that doesn't work in the real world
(because in the real world, people want to do those hundreds of things).