More valid to pick on would be nokia who have used the same plug on many chargers but you will find that you damage the phone in some cases, or else have a charging animation but nothing happen to actually charge in other cases.
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I find the opposite. I see iTunes as a one stop management hub, easy to use. Most of my content is not purchased. I find it easy to manage, backup, sync, and convenient to clone if upgrading to another device, or to have some content on multi devices. IMO
Im constantly handed iphones/pods at work and being asked to copy music onto them, no can do without losing what is on there doesnt go down well with people. The problem with being the guy with the massive music collection. Trying to explain to people how to use a USB flash drive to put it onto their computer which is normally full only to put it onto their iPhone is like explaining brain surgery.
Fair call. I think many users blanked out the collections early on. Its easy to use once you understand it, but if you end up supporting others who don't familiarise themselves with the basics, I can see your point.
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I find the opposite. I see iTunes as a one stop management hub, easy to use. Most of my content is not purchased. I find it easy to manage, backup, sync, and convenient to clone if upgrading to another device, or to have some content on multi devices. IMO
Im constantly handed iphones/pods at work and being asked to copy music onto them, no can do without losing what is on there doesnt go down well with people. The problem with being the guy with the massive music collection. Trying to explain to people how to use a USB flash drive to put it onto their computer which is normally full only to put it onto their iPhone is like explaining brain surgery.
Fair call. I think many users blanked out the collections early on. Its easy to use once you understand it, but if you end up supporting others who don't familiarise themselves with the basics, I can see your point.
Its great that you find it easy to use but perhaps thats because you have a good understanding of it?
Personally I think Apple intentionally made it over complicated when it comes to syncing devices.
In some ways its in their best interest to make it as hard as possible to transfer music between devices to reduce the amount of music sharing which would be detrimental to their iTunes business model.
If you give grandma two devices, one iPhone and one S3 say.
Tell her that you envy her music collection and if she would be so kind as to copy the new Bob Dylan album onto the devices you have handed her.
Now when grandma connects up the S3 (using an industry std micro usb cable) up pops the box on her computer 'device found' etc and all she does is opens the folder, then after one or two clicks is in the Music folder of the android device and copying tracks into the phone.
When she tries to do the same with the iPhone she firstly gets a message that she doesnt have itunes (which is really Soundjam MP not an Apple created product) installed....
After download and install she connects up to be told that the device is not associated with the itunes/computer account etc and it will replace everything on the device.....
Now this is going the official method, of course we could suggest using Easytrans etc for transferring music without all the crazy hassle of doing things the 'Apple way'.
There seems to be a fair amount of punters who would agree on this issue just from a google search.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/29/sync-iphone-new-computer-without-losing-data/
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