This is why I don't like Apple - it's their way or not at all, you don't get a choice, and they give literally no fucks what you think about that.
Only if you agree to use their paid subscription service. I'm a full-on Apple user, use iTunes, have a Mac, have an iPhone. I simply never signed up for Apple music, never signed up for iTunes Match. Still able to 100% use iTunes and my music library the way I always did.
You could argue that they should spell it out more clearly for technologically illiterate people what exactly Apple Music does, but the fact is that people are voluntarily agreeing to sign up for an optional service
which has the specific purpose of doing this. The reason for this service is so that you don't have to carry all your music on your iPhone's internal storage. Some people, who don't particularly care about lossless audio and metadata and ownership of the files, might find this very helpful and useful, especially if they have a lot of music but don't want to shell out for a lot of storage on their phone. Personally, I want control over the files end to end, I want to have them on my computer's hard drive, I want the audio quality I ripped them at and I want metadata all incorporated and done my way. But the important thing is, it's an optional service.
I don't blame the guy in the article for being upset,
but he did sign up for a service that intentionally does what it did. If he cared deeply about something like lossless audio, he probably should have done more research into what exactly the music streaming service does before signing up for it.EDIT: I stand corrected on some of the things I said, it seems like there might have been some sort of error or glitch that caused the particular problem he has. Check out
this article.