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  • Exhaustive acoustical analysis demonstrates HomePod is '100 percent an audiophile-grade sp...

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    loumazz said:
    I think this is an amazing device.  But I won't be buying it.
    Apparently, Apple has tethered it to an iCloud account AND requires two-factor authentication.
    I don't have an iPhone attached to me at all times.  In fact, we don't have any in the house.
    My iPad may or may not be around when I want to listen to music.
    I want to play my music from my Macs on my LAN - and that's it.
    But apparently I can't do this.

    Apple's insistence on tethering to a personal device and an iCloud account is driving me away from their products.
    If they do this with MacOS it will be a sad day indeed.






    AirPlay from your Mac. The iPad doesn't need to be around after initial setup.
    The initial setup requires 2FA.  I refuse to enable it on any of my devices because I have been stranded for days in the past.
    Apple presumes you have an iDevice nearby at all times.  There are other use cases.  
    For instance, try reading your iCloud mail using a browser on another person'd device that is linked to iCloud.
    It's impossible.  It shouldn't be, but it is.

    cgWerksargonaut