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Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products

Posted by Soulskill on from the maybe-if-it-only-had-one-button dept.

waderoush writes "On top of all the other features that it has crammed into iTunes, Apple this week added Ping, a Facebook-like social network for music discovery. It's all part of the company's plan to dominate the world of consumer media, but Xconomy argues that this time, Apple may have gone a bridge too far. iTunes, nearing its tenth birthday, started out merely as a program for ripping CDs, and has grown increasingly creaky and impenetrable as Apple has added more and more cruft, the article argues. The company won't have a stable base for its new media empire until it rebuilds iTunes from scratch — perhaps along the lines suggested by its other new product this week, the revamped Apple TV."

3 of 390 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes by Antisyzygy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, but you can't on the iPhone or the iPad. It pretty much hamstrings the devices since alot of the internet uses flash.

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    That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
  2. Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes by Antisyzygy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes I am sure. If you bothered reading other replies you would know what occurred.

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    That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
  3. Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You really have to stop being an idiot. It can't be good for you. Apple is a company. Companies provide products and/or services. There is not a single company that provides every single feature on every single product. Apple is not limiting your choices in any meaningful way. They are doing the opposite: they are providing a choice of products in a variety of markets. You are completely free to choose something else.