it's sort of amazing that apple of the 2020s is now the microsoft of the 2000s.
the OOBE on an iphone12mini with a new apple id is absolutely atrocious. apple's really just not good at network services, for the most part. account creation should not be this difficult.
@sneak my theory is the secrecy culture doesn’t allow good services, while google’s open culture and ‘lets make infra’ culture leads to better services