Comment by zafiro17 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zafiro17 | Hacker News Reader

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Apple is slowly disappearing from my family's hardware portfolio, and recent software changes are accelerating it. Back in 2005 or so I converted my entire CD collection to digital, and managed it happily using Itunes. Somehow in the transition from itunes to Apple Music, Apple refused to recognize any of the tracks I created from my own, legally purchased media.

My wife currently has no way to listen to any of the music we legally own, using her iphone. So guess whose next phone is going to be Android, with an SD card containing 1TB of music we own? The other advantages of iphone are not important to me, and the apps she uses are available on the playstore. For bonus points I can buy her a pretty decent Android phone for a few hundred bucks, instead of a new device costing well over a thousand.

I understand Apple wants to push everyone to monthly paid services. As a customer, I DO NOT want yet another $10/month expenses - I've got a lot of those already. I just want to listen to music I already own.

Has syncing music from iTunes to your iPhone stopped working? It's the first-class way to listen to "the music [you] legally own" on an iPhone, and comes with no ongoing service fees.

It certainly hasn't. That's the way I get music onto my iPhone today.

> My wife currently has no way to listen to any of the music we legally own, using her iphone.

There are so many ways to do this I can't even list them here.

You can store songs locally on your iPhone, or upload them to a cloud-based service if you've got a full terabyte of them.

But the idea that an iPhone can't play your music files simply isn't true. Also you can buy a pretty decent iPhone for a few hundred bucks too, that will last longer than your Android one. The only iPhone "well over a thousand" is the high-end flagship model.

He’s not the target audience and he’s not buying Apple yet he’s complaining they don’t cater to his whims.

Nobody really cares, especially not Apple.

The problem is that a lot of "the target audience" usually intelligent and prosperous people who used to drop serious cache on apple stuff have stopped buying and are grumbling.

Additionally there's no new game-changing products filling the void.

But he and his wife are the target audience? And a disappointed audience who left the concert?

> converted my entire CD collection to digital, and managed it happily using Itunes

When apple force switched to music they screwed up all people with local music. Some just threw up their hands and switched, the others muddled through and some recovered, some didn't.

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