This is a ridiculous complaint. Transferring 64GB of music to an iOS device and then regaining that space is quite simple, and about one or two steps more than

This is a ridiculous complaint. Transferring 64GB of music to an iOS device and then regaining that space is quite simple, and about one or two steps more than the equivalent action with an Android device. Check the little box in iTunes that says "Manually manage music and videos". Drag your 64GB of music into iTunes. Drag the music from the iTunes library to your iOS device in the sidebar. Delete the entries from iTunes, delete the music from your SSD. Done and done. You seem to believe the media has to exist in perpetuity on the computer the iOS device is synced to. This is not the case, and has never been for either traditional iPods or iOS devices. iPods and iOS devices are built on the sync model and don't use regular mass storage, so you need to use iTunes to interact with them. This has upsides and downsides, but if you wish to simply drag music to the device and then delete it from the source you can definitely do that with an iOS device. On an Android device, you can download 64GB of music from the device and get it into the media player, but nobody is going to actually do that. Also, plenty of people carry Android devices and iPod touches as media players so I don't think this aspect is enough to make the Android media player a convincing sell over the iOS one. IMO the fact that Android uses a Linux filesystem and therefore forces me to use the Android File Transfer Utility on my Mac to copy anything to the device is 1000x more annoying than any issues I've encountered with iTunes.