yeah there are lots and lots of alternatives in practice to “use iTunes” and iOS hasn’t been as restrictive in practice as that implies in years now, but in principle I think the experience of trying to keep 40G of flac or something on an iPhone will still be extremely bad. I wouldn’t advise most people against an iPhone on this basis, and @physical is right that iCloud is super painless for photos (except syncing to a windows machine, it’s horrible at that), but if you’re liable to get annoyed about it, switching ecosystems is no fun anyway
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