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Should I Escape Apple, iTunes, and iPod and Migrate to SSD Laptop, Spotify Premium, MediaMonkey and Amazon Echo?

I've been a bit disenchanted with my Apple and iTunes lately. El Capitan won't read external CD burners. iTunes no longer automatically updates music playlists on my iPod classic, which I now have to do manually. 

Also, I can get an SSD Asus laptop with superior specs to an iMac for cheaper, an Amazon Echo, and that should take care of my music needs. 

I've had this urge to make the switch the last month or so. 

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I heard the report yesterday that Lenovo had put adware on its computers without telling its customers. 

I'm trying to wrap my brain around how stupid they were in the face of the inevitable public relations disaster. If your brand loses trust, what do you have? 

 

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Will I Have Access to My Purchased iTunes Songs Over My Lifetime?

We read that Apple has a 5-computer rule for how many computers we can access our purchased iTunes songs.

What's not clear to me is this: Does the rule only apply to concurrent computers, ones we're using now, or all computers, so that after five computers into the future I'll no longer have access to my purchased iTunes products?

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Thanks, Ulysses:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2875997/Next-year-s-big-trend-ANTI-TECH-2015-set-year-people-forsake-gadgets-social-networks-simpler-life.html

What bothers me most about technology is that it is misused, mostly towards fruitless ends. The average smartphone could easily power a manned mission to some distant planet, but instead it's being used to squish berries in a tedious game of some sort. Instead of looking up to the stars and wondering about the future of human endeavour, we're staring at our navels at every opportunity, hoping to beat a previous high-score and considering that some sort of worthy achievement. We don't need half the technology we own. Perhaps that sounds odd coming from a computer science graduate, but there you are.

Merry Christmas to all.

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I just read people are having similar problems after downloading Yosemite, which I also did yesterday. I'm getting angry at Apple. My computer is 3 days old.