Alex Perez,

I find your comment amusing and very unhelpful! What is more amusing is the ones that said your comment is useful (poor sods)?? Hahaha

So, you are the type to say to someone, why bother driving a Porsche, when your 5 year old Chrysler takes the same gas and drives just fine. That idea is so adorable my good man (you need to be pat on the head), but me, I prefer my sleek Porsche/iPhone to your Google infested (further more, your Samsung phone is full of bloat, just saying) spying android phone.

Having to use an iPhone manager is just the cost of doing business, and having the use of a great phone (without adding any hype). Btw, there is no cost, as in reality, iTunes is free, still as mentioned, you do not need to have iTunes with the right iPhone manager.

Longer then I wanted to initially reply, but it needed saying with your needless "horrible" comment. iTunes on the other hand is horrible, that I will concede.

Therefore in finality, this is for you in your time of need and disregard for others. Confucius says "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."

Cheers, or as Spock says "live long and prosper"

MonkeySnark, I find your comment somewhat condescending, but you are entitled to your opinion just like everyone else is. But think on this, your great Porsche/iPhone are all very well until they go wrong. The Porsche will cost you an arm and a leg to have even the smallest defect fixed and your iPhone, well good luck with getting that fixed for much under the cost of buying a new one, so your apology is flawed and your comment pointless as it dosn't say anything that might be considered useful

MonkeySnark, funny thing is top of the range Android phones have better facilities and performance than the the apple products.
Apple iPhones are by no means the porsche of smart phones unless you mean the old 914 with a fuel injected VW bettle engine!

Godfrey Drive, It needs the drivers required to read and write to the iPhone, these come along with iTunes and legally cannot be packaged inside the installer as it is Apple intellectual property. You do not need to use iTunes as such to transfer the information but system drivers installed by iTunes are required.

Ned, i installed WinX MediaTrans today and did not
have to install itunes and this program works just fine

Ned, So basically although the web page states ' between your iPhone/iPad/iPod and computer ' without iTunes '
you DO NEED iTunes but you don't have to USE it. am I correct ??

Godfrey Drive, Technically, yes. However I find that iTunes always embeds itself so that just having it on your system is a PITA cos u have to reset a bunch of stuff (tho at least it doesn't cause BSOD like Google does to me).

Godfrey Drive, for Apeaksoft MobieTrans, it needs iTunes to install on your computer. When using MobieTrans, it don't need iTunes to be launched. We are so sorry our product did not properly satisfy your needs. We will forward this situation to the appropriate department again to ensure that we make this clearer in the future.

Apeaksoft Studio, why don't you have your installer just download the relevent itunes installer, extract the needed drivers, install just the needed drivers and discard the rest of the installer?
TK

Hi, TK, thank you for your suggestions. However, iTunes doesn't belong to Apeaksoft Studio. Adding it to software is not acceptable. Thanks for your understanding.

Apeaksoft Studio, this is why you do not distribute the installer or drivers in your distribution but download it from apple, and extract the driver package and install it dynamically within your installer. You are not redistributing the installer or drivers from your server or within your installer just downloading the installer like you'd be insisting the end users do anyway but instead just installing the drivers and not the whole package. It is a procedure at least one other provider of similar software to your own does and does not apear to offend apple. Don't forget you are using apples drivers anyway .... are you required to ask their permission to use them? no and you'd not be required to get extra permission to do this procedure as far as I can tell... feel free to get a professional legal opinion.
I believe you'd only need to get apples permission if you wanted to include the extracted drivers installer within your installer, the reason being is you'd have to include procedures to let apple push an update to the drivers distributed in case a security or stability driver update is required.

on a variation of the requirement to use apples drivers and therefor you require itunes installation... could end users temporarily install itunes to get the drivers package installed plug in apple device to ensure drivers are fully installed an enumerated and tehn uninstall itunes... would the drivers remain on the system or would they be deleted by the itunes uninstaller?