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Tech companies seem to believe that it is a neat trick to mislead regulators, in my opinion this is a serious mistake: regulators hold the power to destroy you and playing 'clever' may give you bragging rights but ultimately it can doom your company. Underestimating the power of nation states is a pretty dumb strategy for any company that relies on the cooperation of the countries they intend to do business with.

That would violate the EU legislation as currently written.

> can't connect to any Apple online services whatsoever

So what's the downside?

If you don't want to use Apple services, why are you buying an Apple device? These facetious arguments make no sense.

I use a Mac because the hardware is great and the software is least worst.

There have always been Android users who don’t want Google services, spurring the creation of Cyanogen and Replicant and the like. Are you sure there are no equivalent users on iOS?