Converting a friend to Ubuntu - needs iTunes

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Wed, October 5, 2011 23:37, Douglas Saylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
>
>> He is an active buyer of songs using iTunes and syncs with iPhone.
>> bye
>
> iOS5 (ithe iPhone operating system) which is coming out (I have beta
> it's very cool) I believe Oct 14th will NO LONGER REQUIRE iTunes. You
> can purchase "iTunes Match" $24.99 & it will scan your iPhone & any
> songs Apple has & it will automatically them make available on iCloud
> to steam to an iOS device you own or to download a copy at no
> additional cost. Any songs not owned by Apple will be uploaded to your
> iCloud account. You will be able to do over-the-air upgrades to
> iPhone, back-ups will go to iCloud. You will never need to plug into a
> PC ever again.
>
> I just wiped Windows XP off my friends computer, put Ubuntu on his
> netbook & put iOS5 (beta) on his iPhone 4 & he's all set. He LOVES
> Ubuntu & he's FAR from a tech guy too.

Thanks. This is all new information.
This wasn't widely known when the OP asked his question, because Apple
hadn't given its keynote yet.