[Conner]

(12-04-2019, 02:42 AM)Blake Wrote: What Pogue is missing is that purchasing a ringtone is often the only way to put a musical ring on your cell phone; many phones and carriers do not allow you to manually upload ringtones to their phones, so you have to purchase the ringtone even if you already “own” a copy of the song on CD or from a digital music store.

The ringtone is yours forever, but the new iTunes Store terms of service require that you can only sync an iPhone with a ringtone to one computer, and that attempting to sync it to another computer will erase your ringtones and replace them with any ringtones on the syncing computer.