Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products

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."

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Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[Antisyzygy]

Not so much internet, how you view it yes. You can't play flash games on the iPad. Apple made this decision for you. They are a tad too authoritarian for my taste, but apparently people think that my own personal opinion is wrong since they keep bothering my inbox with slashdot replies.

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[Hatta]

My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives ... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.

Moving songs and videos on and off a device should be trivial. If it's not, it's a shitty device. Don't blame open source alternatives for whatever convoluted bullshit Apple implemented in their product.