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Originally Posted by oldan
I appreciate the design too, but I would like to mention the one thing I see as the real killer, iTunes.
The only time my HTC Touch Diamond comes close to a USB cable is to charge the batter (which is unfortunately too often) or to update a ROM. I never, ever sync with the local PC. I do not want to sync to my local PC. I haven't sync'ed with a PC for years.
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I pretty much use USB only to charge my iPod Touch.
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Originally Posted by oldan
I set my WinMo phones up to sync with Exchange over the air and download apps over the air and pull my music and even ('gasp!') movies over the air.
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That describes my over the air usage of my iPod Touch. I'm assuming that the iPhone works the same way. Mail, contacts, calendar all come via Exchange. I have a third party app for syncing my tasks.
For music I've ripped from my own CDs, yes, I do have to sync via cable. But since I have plenty of room on my Touch for this, I don't do it that often. Since I charge my Touch while it is next to my PC, my music syncs while it charging. But I haven't purchase a physical CD in over a year. It's all online now. The only CDs I rip are the ones sent to me for review. I wish the publishers could send me an iTunes code instead.
The other things I sync via cable are my Audible.com purchased items. Those are remnant form my WM days. I don't bother syncing them to my WM phone any longer. If I had purchased via iTunes, I could download them over the air, too. There may be a way to do that; I just haven't bothered to research that.
The final thing that I haven't figured out if it is possible is to get my subscribed podcasts over the air. I can download all I want manually, but to get my Touch loaded up automatically, I do have to sync.
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Originally Posted by oldan
I want to be as independent of a static desktop device as possible. Windows Mobile lets me do that. With the iPhone, I need to have a home base... with iTunes. No Linux or FreeBSD either. My choices are Windows or OSX.
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I do wish there was less need for being hooked to my computer and I'm just waiting on the day for the Apple folks to realize it is 2009 and many gadget freaks (and even normal people
) use more than one computer. The inability to sync the same library to more than one computer needs to be fixed.
But overall, the syncing thing isn't so bad, as I don't need to do every day. Just ocassionally and ad hoc. Heck, even MS got rid of Wifi syncing and I never figured that one out.