11-18-2015, 01:27 AM
Lew Zealand wrote:
silvarios, what do you use for listening to music on the go? I find Apple's overly structured way of doing things an occasional inconvenience but rarely an actual problem but your use cases seem to be different from mine. I'm wondering what you found that works better for you?
The scroll wheel was brilliant, but the iPod classic is overpriced (and I think gone now) and the rest of the models haven't sported a scroll wheel for years. As such, I just go ahead and use a phone, tablet, computer, and even the occasional DAP, like the Sansa Clip. They all work well enough given the specific scenario.
Lew Zealand wrote: It seems to me that you probably just buy CDs or non-DRM music from other vendors; that's what I've always done. I not annoyed by DRM as I find it irrelevant— it's a business model that I don't participate in as there are superior alternatives: buy CDs and rip them.
Yeah, general non DRM stuff, but I do have some stuff from iTunes. The DRM compatible "digital copies" have been no use to me for years now. Good thing Disney bundled that crap as an alternative to ripping. /s I just ripped the DVD/Blu-ray anyway.
Lew Zealand wrote: The Apple annoyance for me is not being able to load songs from 2 different Macs to one iPod, which is something I assume is still a limitation, it certainly is for the iPhone and iPad. The transfer of music on and then off an iDevice was not something that was of much use to me as we have a centralized server for everything but for non-Apple-owned content that behavior should not have been restricted. Lazy programming or something else?
Something else. They don't want people out of the ecosystem. See how easily Apple leveraged the iTunes connection when the iPhone was released? It was years before you could fully manage your iOS device without iTunes (iOS 5 perhaps?).