Why do you have to sync to a single computer/account? Can you imagine the theft that would take place somewhere like in a college dorm, where I could just go down the hall and connect my iPod to everyone's computer and steal their music? There's a hundred ways around this but I know the real reason is for apple to protect their bottom line and make it more
difficult to transfer music to the ipod/iphone. The fact of the matter is that the idevices don't mount like virtually all other devices I've used and it does require you to use itunes. Having it mount on the system like other devices does not mean they are relying on third parties, it just means they are not afraid of competition but it seems quite clear they are afraid of competition.
Is the walled garden the default theme? Its working well since its the only theme on the iphone so of course they wouldn't know who likes it and who doesn't.
There's nothing "difficult" about plugging in an iOS device and syncing it. You have to download an application that when it
first came out (and I used it very often) was ~20-40MB and now its 78-80MB and growing filled with fluff and junk that I don't really care for; you have to create an itunes account and sync it with apple; you have to sync the device to your computer. I am able to mount the iphone on the linux machine and see all its directories but the music files are arbitrarily named and so are the folders--on purpose.
Hopefully this thread will provide information to me on how to copy files from the iphone to the desktop using itunes...can you do that or can you only go from PC to iphone?
Keytohwy, have you ever heard of rockbox?
http://www.rockbox.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockboxThe Rockbox project began in late 2001 and was first implemented on the early Archos series of hard-disk based MP3 players/recorders (including the flash-only model Ondio), because of owner frustration with severe limitations in the manufacturer-supplied user interface and device operations. ... Instead, it offered a greatly improved user interface and added plug-in functions absent in the factory firmware. This project clearly shows that there are millions of people dissatisfied with the status quo of current, stale firmware pushed out to these music players so action was taken to replace and make the firmware
better. Too bad the developers at apple try to prevent this so much with their constant iphone 'upgrades' (rockbox is used on the ipod but the same principal applies to those who want to jailbreak it and apple continues to do the almost mandatory upgrades on the iphone).