- For what it does, its a huge application.
- The UI is convoluted - everything I want to do is like walking through quicksand (and now it's ugly too)
- It's painfully slow
- It beachballs
- It simply crashes
And this is on OSX. On Windows, it is unusable.
I shouldn't need a prehistoric application like itunes to work with my idevices. They should be able to do all this stuff over the air automatically.... Oh wait, Google is releasing that now (see previous rumor).
I love Apple, but recently they are arrogant and resting on their laurels. I'll buy and use whatever product is the best, regardless of weather it is Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. Competition benefits me
(Huge Application) Sure, it's huge. Who really cares? Does it affect you? No. Unless you savor every megabyte of space.
(Ugly UI) I'm sorry, but that's just simply not true. There have been aesthetic changes made to it, but nothing so drastic that it differs from its previous state. Compared to Google, well, there is no comparison. Everything Google touches is brandished with disdain. Look at Youtube as compared to Vimeo. Look at Gmail as compared to Yahoo or even Hotmail. They apply almost no graphical interfaces to their products. Most teenage kids can make better looking myspace pages through HTML than what Google produces.
(Convoluted UI) I laughed about this. Maybe it's just me, but iTunes remains one of the best ways to organize your media, hands down. I understand if you download your music from Limewire and have to manually edit their titles and add their artwork. I understand.
(Painfully Slow) No, it's not "painfully" slow. It does glitch at times, occasionally takes time when switching between libraries, and freezes, well, almost never (I think it's happened to me twice since the get go). Maybe you maintain a more intense style of arranging your library, I don't know. I download my music from iTunes, so everything runs quite fluidly. Granted, it does take longer than most apps, but nothing that makes it atrocious to use.
(Beachballs) Yep, does that when you open it up, and also when it froze those two times for me. Actually, the most painful part for me is when you close it down, takes like 5 seconds out of my life.
Poor Windows users.
I find your "prehistoric" comment ironic, when you overtly announce your love for Google (exaggeration, not fanboyism). Google in itself is prehistoric. Yes its functional, but a baseline functionality. There are no wow features, period. That's what separates Apple from Google. How many times could you literally have said wow when you first played with an iPhone in 2007? What about when they released the Unibody Macbooks? I have never, NEVER, been wowed by anything that Google released. And I'm not the only one.
But it goes deeper. It's not just what Google produces, but its their business "structure", so to say. They're here to make money (as is Apple), but the difference lies within how they perform this task. Google has ads anywhere they can place them, and theyre godawful. They feel like spam, theyre cheap, theyre stupid. Secondly, Google obviously is trying to dominant in every area they can. How many damn products do they release every year, always something new? Ok sure, its a great concept, but ultimately, they fail because they dont spend enough time refining them (you want to talk about glitchy, point your fingers at Google).
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