My iPhone 6+ starts playing music on its own. It happens at random times with all apps closed and with or without the headphones. It's draining my battery constantly! It came on one we I was driving alone and it scared me I swerved off the road.

After more than ten years as an Android smartphone user I relented to the pleadings of my family and bought my first iPhone (but not my first Apple product). Part of my surrender lies in the fact that I love my iPad and other Mac products. I find them intuitive and simple. (I also admit to owning and operating Windows and Unix hardware and software. I am no platform bigot.)

But letting Cupertino make all my life choices for me is what kept me away from the iPhone for so long. And this is the best example of Cupertino overreach I can imagine. After just two days with my phone, the way it pops up with songs in the middle of something else is beyond my understanding and my patience. (And I assure you that there are no other Bluetooth devices in the house and certainly not in my office. I don't have one in my car. I don't have any on any computer devices in my office. If this is because I also own an iPad, I'm going to get really angry.)

I listen to music a lot. But I cannot have it starting on its own. I have tried all the hacks: hard stop; full-phone shut-down; incense; chocolate brownies (okay, the brownies were just a coping mechanism). I am prepared to remove iTunes (if I knew how) from my phone. But I wonder what else would start playing after I removed that and all the music I've spent a day loading.

I'm asking the ghost of Steve Jobs: Hey, Steve! Would you allow your minions to fail in such an annoying way?

(Either way he answers (or his ghost), I win.)