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."

Comments

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[grub]

Thats because you are spoon fed content from Apple itself.

I also run Firefox and NoScript on Linux and Windows which blocks all Flash. How, again, is Apple spoon-feeding me?

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[Antisyzygy]

Apparently they do. I criticize Apple and all the sudden my Email is getting bombarded by responses from Apple-heads.

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[Antisyzygy]

Look, you called them iDevices. This already is justification to lump you into a sub-group of people known as Apple Enthusiasts. Blocking flash ads is a bit different than choosing to use flash for a video game or something. Apple just wants to control the flow of content through their App Store and ITunes. Shackle yourself to them if you must.

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[Antisyzygy]

I know the difference. Read the rest of the thread. Get back to me if you are still butt hurt about one persons opinion.

hmm

[nomadic]

The thing about the Apple cult is it lets Apple sell people bad design because those people will convince themselves that it's actually a great design. The fact that itunes doesn't have nested playlists is idiotic. But the Apple fanatics refuse to accept this characterization, instead arguing that through a complicated series of smart playlist kludges and a lot of work you can sort-of simulate nested playlists.

Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

For the present... .

Re:I used iTunes many years ago and it was horribl

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

was it really updating id3 tags? Like, you could open it in winamp and read the info you had input in itunes, or could it have been storing the info in some kind of itunes specific database?