Re: There is no common consumer device _less_ private than iOS!

On 2025-06-05 20:14, Marion wrote:

There is no common consumer device _less_ private than iOS!
Or is there?
 That is the question....
 This deserves its own thread because Apple owners are generally completely
ignorant of how Apple devices operate as dumb terminals, simply becasue
Apple owners are, by and large, herd animals who never use their brains.

False.

 Given Apple's (brilliant) marketing advertises otherwise, Apple owners are
clueless that there is no common consumer operating system _less_ private
than an iOS device is.
 One of the reasons the privacy of every other common consumer operating
system is NOT available with iOS, is the requirement for a mothership
login.

False.

 With that login, Apple keeps track of an *immense* amount of data about
you. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google can't do that, unless you're dumb
enough to create a mothership login on Windows or Android.

False.

 But we know computers so we're not that stupid.
Well, Apple owners don't understand this.
 Which is why I bring it up to the fore.
 If you think an Apple device is NOT the least private common consumer
device out there, please let us know why you think that's not the case?
 Note: You might think you could just not create an Apple account on that
device, but most of your native software will not be updated over time; so
that's not even a realistic option (compared to not creating a mothership
account on Windows or Android - which has no negative implications).

If you want to download apps and update them, you do need an Apple Account on an iOS device...
...but the amount of time you must be logged in is limited to those times when you're updating or downloading apps.
And it needn't have much information at all.