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Thanks for this. One of the reasons I refused to use iPhone is that you HAD to have a credit card on file (have they relaxed this?). Now I can tell people that

Thanks for this. One of the reasons I refused to use iPhone is that you HAD to have a credit card on file (have they relaxed this?). Now I can tell people that try to convince me to switch to iphone that steve jobs didn't want me as a user.

rab1d 3y ago
I’ve never had a credit card linked I just use a Venmo debit card with nothing on it and not attached to a bank account.
- hollerith 3y ago
  Does the Venmo debit card know your real name?
waboremo 3y ago
They have, you can now select "none" when creating an Apple ID for the billing information. I believe the only way previously to get around this issue for a while was to buy a new Apple device because the initial device setup allowed for an Apple ID creation without billing info demands.
antifa 3y ago
I found that I couldn't accept free appstore (on MacOS, not iPhone) offers without a credit card on file a few weeks ago.
JohnFen 3y ago
This (generally, not the CC thing specifically) is the reason why I stopped dealing with Apple devices. Apple doesn't want me as a customer. That's not a bad thing, or a thing I feel any sort of resentment about. Apple just has a very specific demographic in mind, and I am not in that group.