Comments on: Thanks Apple! https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/01/15/thanks-apple/ Fun with Virtualization Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: calvin https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/01/15/thanks-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-157980 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:55:11 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=5777#comment-157980 In reply to Tor.

Your tape player wasn’t a general-purpose computer with email, was it?

Anyways, I think if you log into the same iCloud account as the iPod is, you could unlock it that way. iTunes and most JB procedures will expect the device to be unlocked.

]]> By: Tor https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/01/15/thanks-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-157901 Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:16:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=5777#comment-157901 Over in another forum I mentioned my (brand new, not NOS, but 40 year old design) cassette player. That one won’t lock me out if the batteries run out. But your iPod does. It’s not an iPad or an iPhone or something like that – it’s just a glorified cassette player, right? So why is there a need for a lock screen to start with? I don’t feel a need to lock auth unauthorized access to my cassette player..
Just scratching my head here.. something isn’t right with the world.
(And my cassette player was recommended by Apple, that’s why I bought it – for my Apple II [it was still in production, if you can believe that]. So something changed inside Apple over the years.. :))

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