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pfortuny on Nov 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

So, yes: they do depend on the local (to the user) availability of that service. So they depend on that.

Wowfunhappy on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

No, they don’t! If the server is unavailable everything works fine. The problem is when the server can be reached, but is nonresponsive.

I think that’s an important difference. If Apple’s servers ever go offline, the OS will continue to work.

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