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You outright LIED to your friend, you stupid, uninformed FUCK. You need to aplolgize to him IMMEDIATELY, and tell him you are a stupid, bigoted fucker.

How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?

By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.

1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:

https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...

https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?

BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.

2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).

But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.

How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?

By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.

1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:

https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...

https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?

BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.

2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).

But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.

Oh, I couldn't guess oh, wait:

Slacker Radio
RadioTunes
Jango
AccuRadio
Others.

Top 25 Free Internet Radio Sites to Stream Music at Ease

Here's a list of Linux video editors. Hope that helps.

> https://tunesgo.wondershare.co...

Part 1 applies only to Samsung tablet owners. With both Galaxy Note 7 phones and more recently the company's washing machines exploding, I imagine that a lot of people have crossed that company off their short list.

As for part 2, most appear to be launchers, one requires root, one is just a file manager with its own quasi-MDI controls, and the most promising (Multi Screen) unfortunately lacks any sort of APK or Play Store link.

> http://www.howtogeek.com/18934...

That's about Xposed, which requires root. Now that Nexus products have been discontinued, which is the go-to rootable 9 to 10 inch Android tablet?

> http://www.pcmag.com/news/3436...

Available exclusively for Nexus 9 and Nexus 10. All Nexus products have since been discontinued. Or is the feature worth tracking down a used tablet?

> since some years ago I haven't care anymore about local storage. The main reason being I carry my important contents in usb drives

And guess what tablets can't always mount. I had a Nexus 7 (2012) tablet and an OTG cable, and it failed to do anything when I plugged in a flash drive.

> It's already possible to do a lot of tasks with Android.

Is lightweight hobby software development among them?

I use a combination of two different ones. The best OCR software seems to be http://www.paperfile.net/ which is free. So I usually scan into a PDF, run through that, OCR, output to RTF, and then clean up in word, then use Calibre to convert to epub.

A good proprietary piece of software is Wondershare PDF converter - http://www.wondershare.com/ It is actually really good for quicky conversions and keeps formatting, but I am not too thrilled with the OCR - I have some issues with spacing and with it converting edges of pages into graphics and |

Which software I am using really depends on what I am scanning, and what I want my final to look like.

The two most annoying parts is scanning (average book takes me about 1-2 hours to scan), and cleanup (roughly 8-10 hours a book, but your millage may vary). Basically,with cleanup, I fix line breaks and then run spelling and grammer checks (Word is great for this) because sometimes OCR just does some strange stuff (especially on books where text may not be as sharp near the binding as your book isn't perfectly flat - Paperfile is really good about countering that, but not perfect).

So yeah, the time involved pretty much means that I am really only doing this for books I know I am going to read again and again - IE usually I have already read the book once, and know that I will want to read it again.

I also do cleanup on some books I pull from different online repositories - a lot of people will just scan and OCR and not do any cleanup, and just upload books, and it looks like crap on the Kobo. If my damned DRM would work right, I would buy more ebooks.

If Amazon, though, is offering this service, I may just give in and pay the $130 and get a Kindle.