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Why is this so horrible, since it seems demonstrably and easily superior to any other ringtone service offered today? Other cell phones are not tied to music players like iTunes—there’s no way to get music onto the phone except by the cell phone’s preferred method. (There are some exceptions, of course, but not as many as there ought to be.) Since the iPhone is also “the best iPod Apple ever made,” according to Steve Jobs, it already has your tunes on it.