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(Perhaps I should use counterintuitive? I would hope that would get the same idea across without somehow triggering offense. While I've finally come to just tolerate it, I don't appreciate it.

Besides, it's fairly invasive - you may only use it rarely, but it installs a couple services and tries to jump in when the phone connects (all can be administered, but it's a pain cleaning up that mess).

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Heck, just failing to update iTunes was useful for a few years due to some odd DRM workarounds (mostly for a WinAmp addon that read iTunes music files). I mean, you may not see it, but there are certainly reasons not to.

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The whole time there's a feeling of 'gosh, surely there's a better way' and there just really isn't: install iTunes and let it do whatever it wants, or you just don't get to put that mp3 on your phone.Īnd wanting to avoid installing iTunes isn't pointless. It's a bit unexpected, at least for what seem like obvious things like 'add mp3'. This sort of thing was common for the old 'dumb' phones, but it seemed like it was because they were too dumb to behave properly now here's a smart phone being dumb. There's a lot of side trips that normally can be taken to work around this, and each are the same sort of no-op, since it's not for real. In this case there really just isn't anything useful at a high level.Ī better term might be it seems to violate the Law of Least Astonishment, but from the hacker perspective instead: I have a device that's really just spoofing acting like a storage device. Something you can probe, inspect, and otherwise work with. Specifically, I meant that usually there's a reasonable work-around. It's less infuriating than the Music app on the stock iPhone. Personally? I ended up just uploading my music to Amazon and use their app. I mean, if it was drag-and-drop, sure, but this that ain't. That sort of list is pretty much the opposite of trivial. I also like the Winamp plugin from 2010, as well.

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Try to find an obvious way to put an mp3 on an iPhone without some odd middleware software some of the software looks sketchy - and/or has a cost, and a many suggestions are to just use Google Play or Amazon Music.

The whole process is infuriating if you go in expecting it to be simple (which, given it's an iPhone, one might reasonably expect). It took me forever to realize that just because I can kinda-sorta interact with my iPhone as a storage device doesn't mean that it's even remotely going to actually behave as one. And iTunes is terrible, so that solution is out. For a person who frequents HN, that's extremely unintuitive. You'd think it was trivial, but it's shockingly hard to do without using iTunes.