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The article states some of the reasons one might have for still owning a zune:

> The thing is, with your phone, if you download an app like Spotify, they're asking for access to data on your phone, it's connected to the internet, and they track your location, which they sell to third-party vendors. But the Zune isn't connected to the internet at all, and what I like about the Zune is the privacy element.

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> and they track your location

Having just checked, Spotify has no location permissions on iOS.

And do you trust them to respect those permissions?

No, I mean they don't have any permissions at all - not that they're turned off. Also I'm reasonably confident in iOS's privacy settings when it comes to apps.

Short of kernel bugs, there aren't really reliable ways of getting a user's location without having the permissions.

I use an app that plays mp3 files off the storage.

That's pretty neat, actually - what do you use? (And for which device?)

I rounded up a few apps a while ago, Phonograph was the best for me (for Android).

I use music folder player on android, since I like to arrange my music in folders (many apps organize by id3 tags, and I don't feel like fixing them on my mp3s, plus it limits the organization).

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