…MacOS, AppleID and telephone number required.
People randomly give me old tech to wipe and recycle for then. I ended up with an old ipad 4th gen. I wiped it and noted it still worked so after doing a factory reset I decided that this was my chance to poke around an apple device. I explored OS10.xx - honest first impressions: the retina display is very nice… Even for old tech, so I totally get the apple screen loyalty 100%. Otherwise its a software prison. Its the ‘aol’ of tech. Everything is presented to you and thats it. Want to delete bloatware; nope. Want to use the hardware for another operating system; nope.
MacOS is different than on an ipad/iphone… But why people? Oh well - the same is forsure said about me for not having a facebook or google account. GrapheneOS os in its own way a similar prison… I just have the option to turn on the play store or not.
But what I dont have to do is register an account to download software for the device. I can side load. As far as I can tell: without appleID a i-device is useless without sideload.
Could you imagine the way the world would change if an alternative OS could be installed on iPads and iPhones? If Apple one day announced they were opens sourcing their OS’? It be cool.
Anyway off topic I apologise… Signal messenger!
Caret:
I show people how I use signal on my phone, and then show them the usefulness of having that on my desktop. When Im working I dont have to pick up my phone to answer a message on signal desktop. Peaks some interest.
Otherwise they “just prefer text”
Stick:
I tell people that I have a prepaid sim with a number but that its used to maintain signal. That my phone has a data only sim, and if they call or text that number it will go to another device. They would have to use signal to route a message directly to my pocket.