I agree with some of this article - particularly the best tool for the job bit around cameras and gaming consoles - but there's no reason the iPhone can't be th

I agree with some of this article - particularly the best tool for the job bit around cameras and gaming consoles - but there's no reason the iPhone can't be that tool, it just probably isn't through Spotify or Apple Music. Apple isn't going to put a remarkably better DAC in an anniversary iPod that they put in the iPhones (if it varies at all), so the quality bit is a rough sell. Then it's just quality and content of the library, to which I'd suggest something like Plex to manage a library they curate, instead of pushing that through iTunes/Apple Music. I'm not in the camp that Apple Music is awful (though also not an apologist), but I'm always going to get the copy I want at the quality I want if I manage the library myself. And if I forgot or don't have something I really want, I am holding an Internet-capable device that can still stream whatever content from whatever provider I want.