I’m a recent convert from Android to Apple. I have some real issues now with Apple deciding what data I can and can’t put on MY phone.
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I’ve had Samsung/Androids and I’ve had iPhones, and what you said is the biggest difference between the two, in my opinion.
I miss being able to drop media files right into my Android device and just playing it. No gatekeeper (iTunes) to decide what I’m allowed to play, or what’s free or needs to be paid for.
I now use a 3rd party music player instead of my phone(s) for playing media.
Android, I could plug it in to my PC and Win10 would assign a drive and I could physically see everything on my Android. I could create folders, add/delete data, transfer files/data etc..., just like any other hard disk on my PC. You can do NONE of that with Apple. The PC sees it, assigns it, but if you attempt to open it, it says the ‘folder is empty’. I know the phone folder isn’t empty, I just added 1800+ tunes to it. Not to mention the ton of crapwear that comes installed on the iPhone. I said earlier, file transfer is one of the most basic functions of a computer. Without it all you have is a very expensive brick.