That must be the Apple corporate motto when considering iTunes for Windows. This great big bastard of an application is the most sluggish, ill-conceived piece of software I currently have installed on my machine. After updating to 8.1, I'm frustrated as hell again -- and it's over the tiniest little thing! Looking back, 8.1 is only a tenth of the travesty that 7.0 was. Now 7.0, that was a real mess and Apple should still be ashamed of it. All that pisses me off about iTunes 8.1 is that there's a bug so that it doesn't remember whether you like to have the timer countdown to how much time there is left in the song or how long the song is in total. I told you it was minuscule, but it's the fact that Apple can't even get that little thing right that pisses me off so much.
Doesn't anyone test the Windows version? Considering the fact that more people use Windows machines (although Macs have really shot up since they moved away from PowerPC), I'm guessing that most people use iTunes and the iTunes Store on a Windows machine. But as long as Apple gets paid, I'm sure they don't care. iTunes is bloated and slow and needs a complete re-working from the ground up. A good start would be getting rid of QuickTime which comes coupled with it. I understand that iTunes uses QuickTime's assets or whatever, but that's just an asinine way to try and force Windows users to use another piece of software that performs poorly in Windows (And who needs it with Media Player Classic or VLC?).
I'm mad as hell, but I have no choice but to take it since I'm tied down to the software because of my iPod touch. It's not that other software is much better. The last time I used Windows Media Player was an even bigger nightmare than this. Now the old version of WinAmp, there's a program that was spry and trustworthy. A music player shouldn't be so complicated and bloated! Really iTunes is just a few steps away from being classified as "crapware." (You know the terrible programs that come pre-loaded on a lot of OEM machines like Adobe Reader or McAfee Internet Security or Roxio Music whatever or HP such-and-such?)
Get your shit together Apple. For all this bragging about making your applications lighter and smaller in the upcoming Snow Leopard version of OSX, I'm betting iTunes will still be the same hulking brute drowning in molasses.
/rant
Doesn't anyone test the Windows version? Considering the fact that more people use Windows machines (although Macs have really shot up since they moved away from PowerPC), I'm guessing that most people use iTunes and the iTunes Store on a Windows machine. But as long as Apple gets paid, I'm sure they don't care. iTunes is bloated and slow and needs a complete re-working from the ground up. A good start would be getting rid of QuickTime which comes coupled with it. I understand that iTunes uses QuickTime's assets or whatever, but that's just an asinine way to try and force Windows users to use another piece of software that performs poorly in Windows (And who needs it with Media Player Classic or VLC?).
I'm mad as hell, but I have no choice but to take it since I'm tied down to the software because of my iPod touch. It's not that other software is much better. The last time I used Windows Media Player was an even bigger nightmare than this. Now the old version of WinAmp, there's a program that was spry and trustworthy. A music player shouldn't be so complicated and bloated! Really iTunes is just a few steps away from being classified as "crapware." (You know the terrible programs that come pre-loaded on a lot of OEM machines like Adobe Reader or McAfee Internet Security or Roxio Music whatever or HP such-and-such?)
Get your shit together Apple. For all this bragging about making your applications lighter and smaller in the upcoming Snow Leopard version of OSX, I'm betting iTunes will still be the same hulking brute drowning in molasses.
/rant
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