1. I have my own iThingy, Apple better keep their hands off it.
2. I'm neither the smartest nor the dumbest guy in the world, I don't need to wrap my head around this yet. Acronis does my daily backup. I can image and reload without the internet.
3. I buy my music and videos from Amazon, for use with Windows Media Center, either on my W7 machine or my Xbox, on the Xbox live network. I stream video on a number of platforms, some parts of that part of the network are transparent to me.
4. I don't care about a hack on iTunes, I don't use their services.