iTunes is the crappiest piece of software written in the past 15 years. I not only hide the app on my iPhone, but I do everything in my power to work around it on a laptop.
No NFC doesn't really matter at this stage since vendor onboarding is the bottleneck. I'll end up getting the 5 just because I have people that will hook me up. Android needs to solve the degrading performance issue before I switch back.