[crazygringo]

> 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.

[tinus_hn]

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.

[m463]

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.

[cutemonster]

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

[m463]

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.