Yes, that’s true, but as I said I’m apparently a niche user. I have preferences for how I use my devices. Phone is mainly for calls, texts, maps, and a few apps.(And internet when I’m out and need to quickly look something up.) But I prefer to browse on a larger screen like my desktop or iPad. No music on my phone either. I don’t like wearing earbuds. I use my iPod mainly in the car, because it’s big enough to hold all my music, and it interfaces perfectly with the car.
It’s the way it is these days, that everything is more ephemeral than ever. But Apple has really lead the way in ruthlessly forcing us to change and adapt to constant new hardware and senseless tweaks in their various UIs.
But ultimately I’m always pragmatic about things, and it’s clear that at some point I should just buy a phone with 256gb, and transfer all my music to it. But it won’t interface with my 2010 Mini anymore. Huh… guess I’ll have to buy a new car that’ll work with my new phone.
Here’s the whole point: I’m an intelligent guy who likes to find devices and ways to use them that work in my life, the way I want them to. More and more, I am not able to choose the way I use them. The choices get narrower and get taken away too quickly. Apple has really pushed that business paradigm on the world, and it’s hard not to get pushed along with it.