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Nobody needs an iPhone to survive. iPhones and apps are not utilities like Water.

Apple should be allowed to make any rules they want on their non-essential products and even close the App Store if they want to.

I don’t expect to be able to install “any software” on my Playstation, my Switch or my Fridge.

I dont expect to be able to install the Jaguar Land Rover software apps into a VW Golf.

As for a “hardware version” with no OS…. Where to start with that? How do you expect the device to be able to do anything? It wouldn’t be able to even function as a phone without software. Software needs specific hardware, why do you think x86 windows cant be run natively on Apple Silicon. Apple aren’t preventing it, it’s just not possible without translation/emulation. It would be like trying to run MacOS directly on your TV. 

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone crack on. 

If Apple aren’t allowed to decide how much they charge their customers (developers) in the EU they should close the EU app store and prevent all 3rd party app stores for iOS.

They can choose the real App Store so no problem. They should be grateful to Apple. 

chris_kalan said:

On device VPN apps may not circumvent this, but a router-based VPN should, as the traffic being sent to and from the iPhone will masked at the router level, so the iPhone shouldn't be any the wiser.

The iPhone is bound to use the cellular information to determine location also even with mobile data turned off - if there’s a cellular signal the device will know where it is. I would expect even taking the SIM out of the iPhone would probably not be enough as the iPhone will probably simply report the last determined location. 

The bulk of these so-called “flaws” are actually “flaws” of the author.

What kind of Apple professional customer doesn’t know that when you return an item for repair/replacement you only return the actual device and not the power cable and all the other accessories? I would wager that the author was told this but ignored it.

And the HomePod has got nothing to do with the AVP anyway! 

Many of us consider insurance products to be “theft” and not worth it, it certainly should not be compulsory; why should our choice to be careful with our purchases and negate insurance be taken away?

Having multiple AppleIDs on a Mac also has nothing to do with AVP. One suspects that the author switches AppleIDs with the same Mac login, when he should probably use multiple logins, one for each AppleID. Maybe that would avoid the issue he is having with News that is again nothing to do with AVP! 

Of course you can’t share the AVP, do you share your Apple Watch or iPhone?

It would be nice if there was a multi-user system within iOS/iPadOs/WatchOS/RealityOS etc. but there isn’t. It’s not a flaw as such, it’s reality.