Apple has been user-hostile on all possible fronts in their efforts to enforce renting model over media ownership. Some 10 years back iTunes had an option to s

Apple has been user-hostile on all possible fronts in their efforts to enforce renting model over media ownership. Some 10 years back iTunes had an option to stream or share media over network. It was cool to stuff iMac's 3TB HDD with audio CD rips and have all this music available on an iPhone or any other iDevice connected to the same local network. I had a VPN connection from iPhone to home network and all CD rips available anywhere. To avoid confusion: I'm talking about iTunes-specific functionality, not media files sharing. When iTunes was opened on an iMac, all iDevices in LAN automatically had all the media available through local iTunes apps. And then they "renamed" iTunes to Music... But even during the iTunes era they made it artificially difficult to own own media. One would think (or maybe I was delusional?) that media library fully synced from desktop iTunes to iPhone iTunes serves as kind of a backup. Nope - turns out that when desktop disk dies, one can't sync media from iPhone to the new desktop disk. Desktop iTunes was happy to suggest wiping iPhone media as a sync method.