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Apple Releases iTunes 9.2 With iPhone 4 and iOS 4 Support
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Hmmm Now i wonder why only users running iTunes on Windows get more crashes....
Seriously, you think an Apple computer is overpriced.... you get what you pay for. I can count the times my Macbook pro really froze up and crashed with fingers to spare (for the last 2 years since June 2008). I do everything on my macbook pro from running a web/php server, building websites, writing iPhone, Java, python software, ssh, sftp, listening to songs, recording my songs (with garage band) with a firewire mixer, cut movies with iMovie, simple photo processing with iPhoto, and the list goes on.
sure i am not saying windows users can't do that, in fact everything you can do on a mac, you can do on a windows machine, but why does my windows 7 machine constantly crash?
Windows Fan boys would say
- "maybe you don't defragment your harddrive" well i don't have to do it on a mac.
- "maybe you have a virus", same deal, don't need to worry (and it is not because no one uses OSX..... BSD based people?"
- "maybe you have a bad setup with a poor windows performance index" wow so in order to run windows like M$ want you to, you buy more stuff
- "maybe you have too much software opened" uh, last time i counted i had 5 safari windows opened with 4-6 tabs each, photoshop, illustrator, mail, itunes, skype, aMSN, iChat.......
so for you to just say "its over priced and call you when Apple let you sawp in new parts...." sure, keep doing it the old way and think that a computer only last 2-3 years.... cuz most macs i work on can go 4-5 easy......
I got more than I paid since my computer is 2 years old now and still running strong, I know from my past experience that a 2 year old PC laptop will NOT run like it was just off a store shelf.
(oh btw, if u haven't noticed, aside from my hobbies, i am a Software Developer" but that doesn't mean i want to spend my weeknights and weekends hunting down viruses, reformatting computers, reinstalling windows, and banging my head on the keyboard cuz i constantly see BSODs....)
iTunes is a highly recognized brand name that does Apple very well as far as recognition goes. Its one word and easy to remember. Apple is not about to start from scratch and throw away something that works and go about making it more complicated than it is now.
iOs is very different since its a brand name that has been around only for a couple of years, doesnt have branding behind it and is quite clumsy to talk about - changing its brand name isnt quite as risky as changing a name like iTunes. Ford doesnt go out and change brand names that the public responds well to.
I'd swear it's snappier on windows... and I'm not even trying to revive the old "snappier" joke! I don't really use iTunes on my Mac, but damn, iTunes used to be a pig on windows and it seems much faster now.
iMedia or iGuide, there was a trademark made by one of Apple's trademark/copyright partners, I think it was iGuide or something like it.
Finally seem to have fixed the issue with Grid View, where when it was set to dark it would have a lighter square of grey around the album, then the darker grey background. Like the grey look better; it actually looks like it should now!
Jail breakers
if you are jailbroken on 4.0 ....you already have it so don't worry about downloading the "new" version
if you are jailbroken on 4.0 ....you already have it so don't worry about downloading the "new" version
Annnnnd the iTunes store is still slow. 
(No, it's not my connection. I have a 21Mbps connection)
(No, it's not my connection. I have a 21Mbps connection)
I agree on the part that there are more windows users, I like using both systems, I love my mac pro (tower) yes it's pretty damn expensive, but I can upgrade parts of it memory and hd etc. been pretty happy with it.
I'm running SL with the built-in firewall turned on and have never seen the message either.
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The original post with message:
"Once again, the new iTunes asks me to "Accept All Incoming Connections" every time I launch it. Now I have to delete iTunes completely and reinstall it - the only known way to defeat this problem."
I do not own an iPhone nor do I want one, just to get that out of the way. I just don't have a need for it. However, this line that Macs are so much more expensive is a crock!--)) I bet you with the cost of the iPhone, you pay around 2 grand over 2 years just for it and your AT&T contract, so who's kidding who?
You are entitled to your Opinion, but it is just that: your opinion. Add it up and Macs are a good value. Macs are never "obsolete" in 1-2 years. I have never gotten less than 4 years of strong productivity (8+ hours per day, 5-6 days week of graphic design work) out of all my Macs. But whatever, you are probably the only one on this forum who doesn't realize the value of a Mac. blah blah blah blah
No? Remember the iPod mini? It was their number one selling iPod when they ditched the name and rebranded the new version as the Nano.
Well, it still had the iPod brand intact, so you might have a point.
iTunes is a very high-profile brand, you are right. But is it well loved? I happen to like it, but I hear very mixed opinions. If Apple chose the right timing with a rebrand, say on the release of a version with significant changes, they could market it as something new and better than iTunes.
I just can't see the name sticking around forever given its legacy nature. But who knows.
For some reason the PDF iBook's don't sync with iPad. Very weird. I also don't like the lack of ability to organize your PDFs'. I like to have folders of some sort to organize them instead of just a cluster of PDF's.
I think the changelog explicitly says you need iBooks 1.1 for PDF support...? The current version in the App Store is 1.0.1 btw.
if your windows 7 pc is crashing, you're doing something wrong. Microsoft does not make inherently buggy software. You, THE USER, is at fault. I have serviced countless PCs with Windows on it, and the only times when it has crashed is due to user error. The USER is mucking things up.
That's because you need to wait for the iBooks 1.1 to come out first. It's probably coming out pretty soon before the iPhone 4's launch.
That's the case with every OS. A good OS shouldn't let the user mess up the system in the first place. Windows does.