Apple Music isn’t the best streaming music service — it’s just the least annoying::Competitors like Spotify and YouTube Music may be your first choice for music on Android, but you might want to reconsider

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Apples and oranges. For all its faults (and there are lots), Microsoft doesn’t require you to own a Microsoft phone or tablet in order to set up an XBox’s parental controls. You can do it from a website with any device you want - including the Linux machines I use almost exclusively for computing.

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      1 year ago

      Can you give me an example of where Apple requires you to have one of their devices to set up a different device? As far as I am aware this isn’t the case, and I believe that is actually illegal in the us.

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        1 year ago

        You have to have a Mac or iOS device configured with a parent’s account to set up shared apps and parental controls on iPads for kids. That’s because there is no web interface to configure them.

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          1 year ago

          That seems insane to me. Obviously using a parent account makes sense. I wonder if it’s just insanely difficult to find? I know I can change family settings on the website, but have no idea about parental controls. It seems like it’d be illegal to require a second device to set up the first device, no?

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            1 year ago

            Believe me, if it existed, I would have found it. I spent hours searching, and basically all of Apple’s documentation said you needed to go to your own Mac or iOS device to configure it.

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        1 year ago

        There was also an example making the rounds previously where you needed another Apple device to agree to the new iCloud terms on the Apple TV. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254508593

        It turns out there was a workaround that involved signing out and back in on the Apple TV. But I think it might just be a coincidence that works. The Apple instructions explicitly required that you use another Apple device signed into the same iCloud account.

        IIRC, it’s also an absolute pain to make an iCloud account using an Apple TV. Apple really needs to test their stuff with people outside their ecosystem, because some of it is bordering on unusable unless it’s a second or third device.