That's a good reason not to own an iPhone. Android may have its (many) faults, but at least I can transfer music onto it from my Linux command line with "adb p

That's a good reason not to own an iPhone. Android may have its (many) faults, but at least I can transfer music onto it from my Linux command line with "adb push". Or I can take out the SDcard and just pop it into my computer and transfer it like I copy any other files.