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How it is central? I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. What's it good for?
by ebikelaw 8y ago
How it is central? I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. What's it good for?
- rileymat2 8y agoiTunes was pretty essential to interacting with the iPhone in the past. Backups and such. I am not sure this is the case in the present with the reliance on iCloud.
- scarface74 8y agoYou haven't needed iTunes for anything except putting your own music on your device since iOS 5 in the summer of 2011. You can even do that without iTunes if you pay $25 a year for iTunes Match.
- rileymat2 8y ago>I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. I was responding to this.
- tcmb 8y agoHonest question, how do you use iTunes match without iTunes? I thought you'd have to add music to your library first in order for it to be matched and available on mobile? My original comment was about iTunes on desktop, although the mobile version is also confusing and counter-intuitive, but much less buggy.
- scarface74 8y agoTrue. My hatred for iTunes involves syncing with iOS devices. I don't mind iTunes for music management. You still can't create smart playlists and do some of the advanced music management stuff on the iPhone but you can sync playlists etc. without connecting your phone with it. I never knew exactly what type of catastrophe would happen to my iPhone when it "synced" with iTunes.
- amelius 8y agoI remember that system updates, at one point, had to be performed within iTunes.