Re: Almost all Apple native apps die in a short while if you don't log into Cupertino servers

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:49:14 -0400, Tom Elam wrote :

You know, I have been on Apple phones and tablets going on 5 years now.
Nothing bad has ever happened. No spam, no unwanted snail mail, and no
hassles at all. What exactly is your point?

You actually never did anything on that iOS device, Tom Elam.
     *Because you can't.*

Apple designed iOS as a dumb terminal so you can't do anything you like
without losing all your privacy by giving Apple your private information.

Even if you didn't care that no device has *less* privacy than iOS devices,
you can't do things on that iOS device that everyone else can easily do.

An example (bolstering the fact no device is less private than an iOS
device) is you can't run the Tor Browser on iOS (because webkit has no
privacy - & if you don't believe me - look it up - it's on the Tor site!).

You never did any graphical Wi-Fi or cellular signal debugging either, Tom
Elam, for all nearby signals, because you just can't do that on iOS.

You've never set the default messenger app or phone app or contacts either,
Tom Elam, because you can't.

Neither did you ever change your homescreen to something functional, again,
because you can't.

You never used encryption containers, because you can't on iOS.
You never added a system-wide firewall on iOS, because you can't.
You've never been able to spoof your gps location on iOS, either.

The list goes on and on what you can NOT do on iOS.
Luckily, the list of what you can do, is very short.

Without an Apple ID, all you can do, essentially, is take pictures.