iPhone registration with iTune: Pro & Cons

Hello:

I tried looking on the web but couldn't find anything regarding whether I
should or not register my iPhone w/ iTune. Can someone tell me what to pros
& cons are?

In addition, how much privacy is there when transferred music & etc to
iPhone using iTune (that's the only s/w a typical user has to do that).

TIA, Mike

 

Previously on misc.phone.mobile.iphone, Mike said:

The biggest con is that if you don't, you can't use it.

That is strictly a local.

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I can actually use iPhone w/o registering. Guess that's because my cell
phone provider registered the phone. Now iTunes is asking me if I want to
register. I been told if I register, the phone is locked from other trying
to use it if it were lost.

Are you saying that when transfer music from PC to iPhone, no data is sent
to Apple? I though data is sent to get album info (such as cover, ...).

 

It is, and same when using Genius.

However, this is only when you kick off a scan to match remote artwork
with the files on your computer, and for Genius - only when you allow
the service to run. There are descriptive warnings that pop up
mentioning about the privacy issue - can't remember 100% if that popped
up for album art, but it certainly did for Genius.

 

Previously on misc.phone.mobile.iphone, Mike said:

They still doing that? Mine was registered at the store, I got my
iPhone 3G shortly after it was released. But weeks later, they were
telling customers to plug it into iTunes at home to activate the phone.

I don't know about that, but I believe that if you don't register your
iPhone with your iTunes you cannot transfer purchased content to it due
to DRM.

The retrieval of album art is an option you can turn on or off in
iTunes. If it's on, iTunes will attempt to retrieve album art when you
import the tracks to iTunes, not when you sync the media to the iPhone.
If you do not want it to retrieve album art at all, turn that off in
the iTunes settings.

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What's that??