There are irrelevant steps such as language, regions, Siri, FaceID/TouchID etc however when setting up and iPhone it ask you for internet via cellular, wifi, or iTunes via USB.
I would like to add some details here. You also need to have an internet connection on iTunes for activate an iPhone.
If you do a factory reset on the device. It must be reactivated.
Then it ask for your AppleID or to make a new one. This step can be skipped, at least temporarily. In this regard this is very similar to Android with Google services. You can skip the initial log in however you can not access any Apple or Google services.
This is correct. Login with Apple ID or Google Account appears in setup screen. Both can be skipped.
You forgot something on an Android with or without Google services.
If you like, you can download and install the apps directly with your Android device from the f-droid or github page. If users miss some apps, they can download them from the Play Store.
You can also save the apps. You can transfer the apps to your PC or to a second Android device.
Nothing new like on a desktop operating system.
Your suggestion for me reading the thread brings up a good point about security and privacy. Dave mentioned mysterious servers collecting data. Apple does not release much (if any at all) information about their API severs such as api.smoot.apple.com for security reasons. Apple even goes as far as making it difficult to see what API it is and which app is using it.
API attacks can be very powerful. Remember when Equifax was hacked and near 150 million social security numbers were stolen?
That was an API attack...
The end user doesn't need information about Apples API servers and its not worth attempting to just to satisfy someones curiosity.
Dave did not only mean the API server, but also the other Apple domains. And Microsoft has no problems keeping documentation about what their domains do and how to disable them.
The API attack from the report actually shows who is responsible for it.
" Yet those responsible for managing these risks have simply looked the other way instead of securing their APIs."
The report also states that very large companies (paypal, instagram, amazon) have already had these attacks.
It is very good that it is known and the security vulnerabilities has been fixed. Otherwise there are backdoors that would not only exploit the hackers.
It's not just about the end user. There are also developers, security researchers and other people. Also, these people are a user at the same time.
iOS isn't open source, locked down and verified (like on activation and on updates via checksum) which makes reversing engineering their API incredibly difficult (realistically impossible?). Their API servers are specifically built for security handling API data (I looked up api.smoot.apple.com's SSL
here ,that will take about 90 seconds to completely load).
I'm fairly sure that Smoot API is related to getting your location for accurate local search results. This data is sent encrypted to Apple specifically for privacy. The data collected on you that is used for marketing is anonymized with a group of 5,000 other people with similar habits and traits as you. That anonymous identifier can be limited and/or reset in the Privacy settings on the iPhone. And if you are really concerned you can goto your account Name, Phone Numbers, Email, See how your data is managed and click on the link....
Yes iOS isn't open source. But still a Unix-like system. Android is also Unix-like systen.
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I don't know of any other mobile operating system for the end user that requires activation in order to use the device.
Even macOS does not (yet) have this limitation. I guess Apple will also try to limit it here and bring macOS closer to iOS. You can only set up your Mac device if you do an internet activation.
The software will then only be available in the App Store. I don't think this with the App Store. Apple will rather discontinue the Mac section.
I think there is quite a bit of misconception with respect to Apple and privacy. As we've seen from recent events Apple absolutely does gather a lot of analytics from its user base. The difference with Apple is that they don't specifically use this information to provide targeted, third-party...
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One last thing: Having done this research today my personal conclusion is that if a person wants to be on the Internet but have the most amount of privacy they should use a trusted Linux distribution. Otherwise one should expect the vendor to be monitoring at least some aspect of their use. To...
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it is not only about this API server, but also about other servers from apple.
You can set options to off. but still it gets connected and other things. Read the posts and you see that the statements of Apple and the media etc... is not true. That's exactly what the end consumers take in marketing videos, statements and think Apple takes care of your privacy. If you turn off some options. But in the background it continues.
If you look at the privacy scandals, Apple has never solved the problems on its own before.
Probably it was reported (years ago) by developers or users, as you. But Apple never wanted to fix it before, because they also want to collect a lot of data for their services.
Even encryption won't do you any good. When quantum computers appear in the future and older encryption technologies can crack.
You yourself don't know if Apple has deleted the old encrypted data. You have to trust Apple blindly. Once you're affected, don't expect too much help from Apple. Apple has always wanted to build a centralized system.
This is why Apple patches jailbreaks referencing them as security updates btw.
That's not entirely correct. Apple is not patching the jailbreak. Apple patches security vulnerabilities.
A jailbreak is possible due to an existing vulnerability. The vulnerability makes the operating system insecure, not the jailbreak, because the vulnerability was present before the jailbreak or is still present without the jailbreak.
