Re: Setting up an iPad without an AppleID

On 8/4/24 9:29 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-08-04 21:53:02 +0000, Tyrone said:

On Aug 4, 2024 at 5:33:17 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2024-08-04 14:22, Tyrone wrote:

On Aug 4, 2024 at 2:35:09 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

And finally, we get to the home screen where we can use the iPad,
without ever having had to sign into Apple's servers.
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21-Home screen.jpeg
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Now, to be sure, there is a fairly limited set of apps that come on the
iPad; 23 apps to be exact, and some of them DO work via an AppleID, but
lots don't require one. You may be bothered about finishing setup by
adding an AppleID from time to time, but you can simply ignore those nags.

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You can also say OK and it will take you to the settings. You can then cancel
out and it will never ask you again.

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So we're agreed:
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Anyone who claims that an iOS device is just a "dumb terminal" that
cannot function without a connection to Apple's servers at all times...

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Well, to be fair, ANY device these days can be - sort of - considered a "dumb
terminal" because the whole point of most devices is the network connection. But apparently troll boy has never actually seen a real dumb terminal. It
actually does nothing locally, it merely displays the TEXT that is coming
across the line from the Actual Computer.
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Phones/PCs/iPads etc. are way beyond "dumb". There is more local processing
going on than in mainframes of 20 years ago.

 Maybe, but the tech industry is pushing more and more back towards consumers having what are realistically little more than dumb terminals with all the apps running on the developers' servers (at a monthly subscription of course). Office 365 is the obvious example, but Apple and Adobe also have webapps of their office and creative software.
 They want to do that because it makes it easier for them to enure everyone is using the latest version, which in turn pushes poeple into buying a newer device. They also do that to circumvent the pirating of the apps.
 BUT having everything on the "cloud" is ridiculously silly and makes it impossible to do anything when your internet connection is down or your device is considered "too old".

Change copyright law to make the software subscription model unprofitable
if they lock you out of your documents:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251700
 From his article:
"APIs, file formats and similar cannot be protected under either copyright or
trade secret (irrespective of private agreement by adhesion or even
negotiation) as that is deemed contrary to public policy unless the software
that uses them is sold as a fully-licensed per-user product.  You can
restrict the number of concurrent users but not "marry" the software to
hardware nor can you prevent a reinstall if someone buys a new machine, even
if the old one can't be "de-registered" (because its broken, for example.)"
"Abandoned versions, where the licensing check engine or any part of its
authentication or other online resource necessary for its ordinary use are
shut down lose copyright and reverse-engineering protection as a matter of
statute and the firm is further required to publish a patch file that
disables said checks."