Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Godo news for the Mac ! Date: 7 May 2017 00:19:22 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <59094de0$0$60254$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> <590e637b$0$43778$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net T264fAtGTY2Lv0M8SySIGQEhtSvevw+dQw4KLNyyf3ELvuFOtd Cancel-Lock: sha1:9sP7ajwzaCv444NwUS6+KDk1Hj8= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:106516 On 2017-05-06, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2017-05-06 02:12, Jolly Roger wrote: > >> That's a lie. Anyone who knows anything at all about Apple knows >> iCloud is *completely* optional. > > "completely" is somewhat overstating it. After an IOS iOS is irrelevant to this conversation since we're talking about *Macs* here in the comp.sys.mac.system news group, and iCloud is *completely* optional on *Macs*. My statement stands on its own. > I haven't done enough OS-X upgrades since iCloud to recall the > behaviour. Then you shouldn't open your big, ignorant mouth. > Yes, it can be diosabled, but Apple's UI is designed to dissuade > people from disabling it, so not quite "completely" optional. Nope, it's completely optional in macOS. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR