> Apple aren't interested in catering to 100 different music applications and 1000 different music devices
They don't really have to. Put up a storefront on the web like every other 21st century company and let people download mp3s and flacs and they're good to go.
A simple mp3->iDevice utility is all it would take to simplify importing onto a device and even better you should just be able to cloudplay purchased iTunes songs on your iDevice and/or download/push to the device directly.
iTunes serves almost no purpose in a modern world.
They don't really have to. Put up a storefront on the web like every other 21st century company and let people download mp3s and flacs and they're good to go.
A simple mp3->iDevice utility is all it would take to simplify importing onto a device and even better you should just be able to cloudplay purchased iTunes songs on your iDevice and/or download/push to the device directly.
iTunes serves almost no purpose in a modern world.