> Well I am far more likely to take the measured, legally considered statement from Apple over a single independent artist's Twitter posts. Apple would be in a for a world of hurt if they deliberately mislead people.

Considering the way Apple lied... ehem... misspoke? misled people?... about ebooks, lying about music isn't that far fetched.

> No. I am an iOS user and half my music collection is from the web. It is completely legitimate to use iTunes to add it to your collection. Otherwise third party apps exist which allow you to download from the mobile web. I am not saying it isn't as flexible as Android but it is disingenuous to say it isn't possible.

So, as I said, it is impossible for an iOS user to just download a song and add it to their music library on the go. It would be technically easy for Apple to enable this, but they purposely disallow this to make it harder for customers to purchase from 3rd parties. The same way they won't let 3rd parties sell music within their apps without paying 30% to Apple (making it financially impossible).

Having to go all the way home, add your music to iTunes, plug your phone into your computer, and then sync to iTunes just to be able to add a single MP3 to your phone's music library may be "legitimate" but it's anything but reasonable. It's in this state solely to make it inconvenient to the user and push them into the open arms of iTunes.

They don't even have to be lying. Apple is a huge company, and it's entirely possibly that its representatives may have been making threats that were not, ah, officially authorized.