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> a brick without an ongoing Apple subscription This just isn’t true. You don’t have to give Apple another dime to use an iPhone perpetually. Any paid Apple su
by aficionado87 3y ago
> a brick without an ongoing Apple subscription
This just isn’t true. You don’t have to give Apple another dime to use an iPhone perpetually. Any paid Apple subscriptions are optional for cloud or streaming services.
- dismalpedigree 3y agoAgreed its optional. But Apple will do their best (worst?) to get you to use it. Defaults to the free 5g, resetting preferences after OS upgrades, nagging prompts, etc.
- perihelions 3y agoIt may be a free subscription, but it's still an ongoing, no-opt-out commercial software service relationship with Apple, Inc. That's why it has a Terms of Service [0] – which is effectively a ToS for the iPhone hardware itself, as there is no way to use it without Apple's OS. [0] https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS16_iPadOS16.pdf https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS16_iPadOS16.pdf (the iOS ToS) (And I think it's noteworthy how that ToS' language bounces freely between "hardware" and "software"; how it fluctuates between "software license agreement" and "by using your iPhone ("device"), you are agreeing to...". Apple hardware and software are fused together: there is no practical difference).