Apple Stole My Music
Every time I am asked to set up someone's Apple device, I find it incredibly difficult to:<p>* Get it synced properly<p>* Determine what is stored in iCloud/on-device<p>* Ensure that device contents are actually backed-up, unless done manually<p>* Set up simple things like email accounts<p>Just a month or two ago, I was helping someone whose iTunes music wouldn't sync to their iPhone. It turned out that, when they signed up to Apple Music, iTunes had silently flipped on a setting that prevents this. Working out what on earth was happening took me almost an hour.<p>Yet everyone tells me that their Apple devices 'just work'. I don't have the same experience - I find their behaviour to be utterly opaque and non-deterministic. Am I alone?