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by Ntrails 5008 days ago
"Why can't Apple be smarter and have iTunes download all information from the iPhone upon connection?"

I would imagine this is because the iPhone/Pod/Pad is expected to be a slave not a master.

When I hook my iPhone up to someone else's computer, it asks me if I want to overwrite everything on the phone with that data, not upload my data over theirs. Indeed, with purchased data going up from a phone the computer should need to be authorised etc first.

Whilst I accept that what you wanted to do should be simpler and more intuitive - I would be very unhappy were it automatic.

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I would imagine this is because the iPhone/Pod/Pad is expected to be a slave not a master.

Why would this always be the case? I'd expect the mobile device to have more accurate/newer information than the stationary device, most of the time. If you're networking at lunch or a conference, and you put all that info into your phone, why wouldn't that be synced with the PC instead of the other way around?

Because that's how it was with iPods.

iOS5 changes it more over to the iOS device though