Well I have used my phone exclusively for 1.5 years now with no issues at all. With my car radio, I drive away a bit and lose reception. I switch to my local radio through my cell network, and its crystal clear. I can tell you with radio at least, my cell network is MORE reliable.
As for your music... OK... so lets say you want a new song and its not in your collection. Lets say you want access to your collection and you are on a trip and your collection is at home. Your PC is off. Lets say you go to a party, a friend has a computer, and you want to play YOUR playlist.
Do you see the benefits of having your music and playlists in a cloud than on a device?
Imagine if you use email, gmail, yahoo, hotmail. Imagine if all that only resided on one computer. And you go some place with a PC, not yours, and you have no access to your mail. Its the same with music. The conveniences are many.
I am not saying storing things is bad, I think you need a combination of both. But you have to see where things are headed. Record labels prefer you not OWN that music. In order to do that, they are willing to do a lot... let you access really cheap. If Michigan has bought those 22K songs, he has spent 22-28 THOUSAND DOLLARS on that music. A subscription to a service is $10/month with full features. In a year, that is $120. 10 years is $1200. That's a far cry from $22,000.
He doesn't have a cell phone (I find this really hard to believe), so for him it makes sense but there aren't too many people like that.
