iTunes to See Increased Facebook Integration?

[ranReloaded]

This. I started giving up on using Facebook when I had to work my way through farmville junk, mafia wars, and all the other retarded apps people play on Facebook to find actual posts. Kinda loses the point when Facebook can longer accomplish for me the simple task of knowing what your friends are up to.

I have a strict FB policy: Send Me Puppies (or whatever) and I HIDE you. Send me too many page suggestions and I Ban you. Problem Solved.

I haven't come across Farmville or Mafia Wars, possibly because fortunately none of my friends plays. I don't know the details but they seem to suck a lot.

as for Second Life: Go Get a Life!

 

[ranReloaded]

Regarding constant Facebook UI changes, they are missing the main point, which is this:

The best UI is the one people are used to, regardless how inherently flawed it may be. The longer you use it, the more natural it feels.

As an example, that's why some people set up to make a free version of MS Office (in the hopes of making it "free as in free beer" or debuggable by any one, whichever) and yet they got the same ****** meaningless crammed toolbars and menus (Open Office, I'm looking at you).

People don't want to re-learn everything every two months. They'd rather stick to what they're used to.

 

[ibosie]

I've never stepped foot into Facebook. I know this sounds snobbish but whenever I hear it mentioned I immediately start forming opinions about that persons lack of fashionable esteem. Applications with ready-to-go Facebook icons receive the same treatment.

 

[blybug]

iTunes spilt into several applications? Sounds a bit messy to me, not something Apple would do.
I have another idea (not sure if it's plausible or not, just thought i'd share it)
What if you were able to select what parts of iTunes you wanted, like if you only wanted it for music, you only get a basic music player, but if you then decide you want some movies too you download another piece of software that simply plugs in to your existing iTunes. That way people could avoid a lot of the unnecessary bulk that they complain about.

Anyone think this is a good idea?

It's simple enough to hide and/or not use the features of iTunes that don't interest you already. Between the General, Sharing, and Parental Controls prefs, you can shave it down to just your music Library and Playlists.

Perhaps one big sweeping iTunes menu item ("Simple iTunes" like the Finder has) could encompass all those changes for those looking for one-stop debloat. But overall I think providing all the bells and whistles and allowing users to turn off what they don't want to see/use is more intuitive than having to download and patch together a custom version.

 

[mangoduck]

why does itunes need facebook integration? just, why?

if i want to use their service, i'll navigate to their site because that's how their service works. it's a site.

i actually stay away from it cause it's full of "crud" which i don't to backwash up into my music player.

 

[PandaOnslaught]

Runs great on OSX for me; incredibly slow and bloated on Windoes Xp, Vista and 7.

ditto i have around 23,000 songs on my itunes and when trying to scroll it takes a few seconds for the screen to load, and i can never use cover flow because its impossible to load, nor grid view, and i have a 3.0ghz C2D and 4gb of ram, its just the most inefficient programs I've ever had to work with, but it is pretty i give them that, i never had the same problems on any of the ubuntu programs like amarok, its much more responsive.

adding facebook integration would also just be annoying, HEY LOOK WHAT SONG IM LISTENING TOO, to the 600 friends on facebook, everybodys feed is already clogged up with mindless rants or whenever someone joins a group, i mean i dont really care what people are listening to since no one listens to death metal anways

 

[mabaker]

iTunes on OS X is spot on - it takes about 65-70 MB of RAM and I couldn’t be happier! To think that Safari-hog takes regularly more than 800MB, not to mention the Flash plug in which is counted separately now, it’s a breath of fresh air!

So I’m the last one to want itunes to bloat as it’s like the last iLife app on the block that is running efficiently.

 

[Corbin052198]

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.50 (Nintendo DSi; Opera/507; U; en-US))

Never used Facebook, so this doesn't matter to me. Bring on the iPhone OS 4.0 rumors instead.

 

[cinwick]

Sounds like a decent idea, im not surprised by it- two big powerhouses like fb and apple teaming up. But I probably won't use it.

 

[boss.king]

It's simple enough to hide and/or not use the features of iTunes that don't interest you already. Between the General, Sharing, and Parental Controls prefs, you can shave it down to just your music Library and Playlists.

Perhaps one big sweeping iTunes menu item ("Simple iTunes" like the Finder has) could encompass all those changes for those looking for one-stop debloat. But overall I think providing all the bells and whistles and allowing users to turn off what they don't want to see/use is more intuitive than having to download and patch together a custom version.

That makes sense. I was purely thinking of a way to cut down on loading time etc, so maybe turning off parts of iTunes would do that. I personally don't find it to be that slow, the only problem i have is freezing when my iPhone syncs. If they could do something about that i'd be a happy camper (just for the record, im a PC with no intention of becoming a mac for financial reasons)

 

[PeterQVenkman]

Wait 'till Steve Jobs hates Facebook, and starts disabling it on iPhones and iPads

 

[Imola Ghost]

Rather than add more useless STUFF to iTunes, I'd like to see better ID Tagging/ripping capabilities, ability to buy Apple Lossless song/albums, and increase the overall performance of it. I have about 24,000 songs in the library and that it by no means more than some people I've read about but it seems as iTunes is running, my computer becomes slower and I see spinning beach balls.