So, iTunes has lots of great practical stuff. I even liked the radio tuner, it worked pretty well for me. BUT... you've totally left the visualizer out of your review! In the "just for the heck of it, really adds nothing to the functionality but is really cool" category, the visualizer wins hands down. If it were just a CD player with the visualizer added in, it would still be worthwhile. Now, I can see the music...
Have you ever read Card's forward to later editions of Ender's Game? He basically says that all the critics who bashed Ender's Game are closed minded. I agree with you, there are tons of links that are missing in EG. It's an okay book, but it doesn't deserve the worship it gets. I think most people get blown away by the ending and therefore forget all the bits they were sitting there thinking "huh?" about.
BTW, if you think that Card's writing in EG was horrible compared to Dostevsky, take a look at Ender's Shadow.
Writers who put junk out there and call it a novel like Card does are one of the main reasons that sci fi gets less respect than romance novels from non-geeks.
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So, iTunes has lots of great practical stuff. I even liked the radio tuner, it worked pretty well for me. BUT... you've totally left the visualizer out of your review! In the "just for the heck of it, really adds nothing to the functionality but is really cool" category, the visualizer wins hands down. If it were just a CD player with the visualizer added in, it would still be worthwhile. Now, I can see the music...
Have you ever read Card's forward to later editions of Ender's Game? He basically says that all the critics who bashed Ender's Game are closed minded. I agree with you, there are tons of links that are missing in EG. It's an okay book, but it doesn't deserve the worship it gets. I think most people get blown away by the ending and therefore forget all the bits they were sitting there thinking "huh?" about. BTW, if you think that Card's writing in EG was horrible compared to Dostevsky, take a look at Ender's Shadow. Writers who put junk out there and call it a novel like Card does are one of the main reasons that sci fi gets less respect than romance novels from non-geeks.