[Skroob]

"This iTunes need eliminates a large segment of technophobes."

Really? It wasn't even 3 years ago when all iPhones required iTunes syncing to load music. Every single iPod, since the very first one in 2001, have required it all along, and they've done fine with "technophobes".

[projct]

You could buy music directly on the original iPhone, no need to sync music over to it, starting with the 1.1 update about 3 months after release, 5 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#Version_his...