[krschultz]

"Normal people", by which I mean myself, want to plug their iPhone in and NOT have it sync, because I have more music than can fit on it, so auto-sync for a subset of my playlist is nice, but even that's more of a hassle than I care to bother with.

[unalone]

...which is why iTunes also supports drag-n-drop, and subset syncing. Are you trying to make a point?

[krschultz]

That your personal experience is not the "normal", it is YOUR experience. Extrapolating from your preferences to "normal" is a common fallacy with hackers and you are making it right there.

Usability testing should trump hunches. I polled my room mates (small poll, but still 4 > 1), none of us have a music library small enough to fit on an iPhone and none of us want all of our music/videos/photos on our mobile device for a variety of reasons. Drag and drop in iTunes is preferable for us.

And I have an iPhone, I've had it wiped out by iTunes. I'd rather have drag and drop like a normal file system from Explorer.

[jrockway]

Are you?

[unalone]

My point was that Apple offered a seamless system that works more fluidly than Android's for the people that want it. My current irritation comes from kr's snarky response suggesting that some people don't like Apple's syncing system, when Apple does in fact offer alternatives and doesn't default to syncing to begin with.

[thwarted]

Quoting you from earlier:

"Normal people", by which I mean myself, want to plug in their iPhone and have all of their stuff synced without ever clicking any button. Drag-n-drop is nice, but even that's more of a hassle than I care to bother with.

If syncing is on by default, having to turn it on doesn't sound like "ever clicking any button".