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I’m in the same boat, and resolved never to buy a new iPhone again since from a consumer perspective I believe the premium cost is unjustified. I bought my most recent iPhone on Swappa but I’m getting closer to the point where I leave Apple altogether.

Last week I had to connect my iPhone to my computer (despite wireless sync being enabled), use iTunes to copy audiobook files to my phone, and then for some reason I can only access them in the iBooks app on the phone, despite them not being available in the app of the same name on my Mac. It reminded me of Bill Gates’ famous MovieMaker rant.

One more thing...if I want to watch video files on my iOS device, why do I need to use an obscure app called TV? Would it make sense if I had to use an app called Radio to listen to audio files?

[givinguflac]

There are tons of simple ways to get those files into any video or book reader you want. Using iTunes you could have loaded them into the app if your choice as well. Granted it would be nice if iTunes had defaults for which apps what files went to, but this is entirely eliminated using the files app, airdrop, cloud services etc.

[Terretta]

You don’t have to use TV. You can use each channel’s first party app. But if you use a variety of them, TV rolls that up into a TiVo like “Up Next” and searchable Library for discovery.