“Unfortunately, iPhones do not support direct downloading of music”

Just think directly about that for a minute, 14 years into the iPhone era, from the company which pioneered the destruction of purchased music as a viable product for musicians. As pundits celebrate the addition of tiny cosmetic adjustments to the home screen, and as the Mac’s usefulness is eroded further in the direction of iOS. As Apple rejects and shapes what developers are allowed to do with legitimate applications, and that people are allowed to install. Bandcamp has to include a note like this right after you buy music nearly-directly from a band.

Just struck me anew how bad some of the foundational assumptions of (some instances of) modern computing are.