Chapter 5. Entertainment with the iPhone

Apple often has to put up with the reproach that the sales figures for Macs, iPads, and iPhones are constantly growing but those of Apple’s media player iPod cannot keep up. Yet the “problem” is obvious: Every iPhone and iPad has a fully capable iPod already built in. So if someone buys one of the new mobile Apple devices, they no longer need to buy an iPod, because they already have one included in the device they have purchased.

How Music, Videos, and Podcasts Get to Your iPhone

The first question you may have been asking yourself is how the media gets to your iPhone in the first place. There are different ways of doing it.

Syncing via Cable

Whenever your iPhone is connected to the computer, you can ...

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