Syncing my iPhone with itunes on two computer

Hi,
How come iTunes won't let me sync with two computers? It's really annoying, as I sometimes download stuff on my laptop and would like to transfer it to my iphone (without having to connect it to my workstation, which is at home).
This is really annoying. Why is apple making us do this?

DRM issues so you can't copy music from one computer to the next using your iPhone. I had the same problems. So what I did is just made my main computer the "sync", and then set the 2nd computer to "Manual." I can sync up applications, etc, and still listen to audio from the iPhone when on the 2nd computer. It just can't be on the 2nd computer if that makes sense.

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