You make a fair point, you can <i>mostly</i> avoid bad Apple software.<p>The one choice you can&#x27;t make is iTunes. Being forced to use that <i>dreadful</i> piece of software is why I gave my first iPhone away after little less than one week. It&#x27;s abysmally incompetent as a music player. You could probably count the number of codecs it supports on one hand - a core feature of a music player is, well, playing your music. Last time I used it, it still didn&#x27;t have a media library and dumped tens of thousands of songs into a flat list. You <i>have</i> to have that garbage installed on your machine if you own an iPhone. Not interested.