[CaliBoyPhillip]

I think that part of you telling you that you don't need apple is correct, itunes doesn't really make it any different for putting media on you're phone easily but to be honest I find it as a excuse for people with no knowledge when it comes to tech, if being able to buy songs while on the go? use the amazon music market application. I think it let's you buy songs on the go. I also believe there is a good amount of application's the support Multimedia for Android.

Did i forget to mention that you can flash to custom ROM's on Android as well!