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> Assuming people in any significant number care about having to use an online account is naive. Apple requires it. macOS does not require a cloud account. Tec
by gurkendoktor 7y ago
> Assuming people in any significant number care about having to use an online account is naive. Apple requires it.
macOS does not require a cloud account. Technically you don't even need one for iOS, but most people will create an Apple ID for the App Store (and I hope this distribution monopoly on iOS will eventually be broken up).
- yellow_postit 7y agoMacOS also prompts incessantly trying to get you to create and/or link a cloud account. Neither Mac or Windows really requires an account but they make it an inconvenient path.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago> MacOS also prompts incessantly trying to get you to create and/or link a cloud account. Well, kind of. It seems to prompt me once per service, more or less. If I keep closing them, I've found that macOS does eventually shut up.
- LexGray 7y agoIn a similar way for macOS enabling the offline root user has been under Network Account Server > Directory Utility forever. Microsoft is not alone in their logic here.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoIn a similar way for macOS enabling the offline root user has been under Network Account Server > Directory Utility forever. Isn't that more for security reasons? Apple doesn't want users enabling the root account unless they know what they're doing, so they make it hard to find. (And, really—coming from someone who runs with SIP turned off—there's very little reason to enable that account.)