No iTunes. No STEAM. I'm beginning to see the picture and it's the picture I saw when this POS OS was first announced.
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Microsoft Admits an iTunes 'Metro' App for Windows 8 Not Coming 'Any Time Soon'
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No iTunes. No STEAM. I'm beginning to see the picture and it's the picture I saw when this POS OS was first announced.
Windows made Vista. But the people said noooo give me XP instead.
Windows made W8. But the people said noooo give me W7 instead.
So do we have a trend where:
Windows makes X version OS. But the people say nooooo give me X-1 (ie the previous) OS instead.
Nice one
. I was one of those people. For almost two weeks; Lion made it easy to switch to Windows. Windows 8/RT makes it easy to stay. iTunes would be nice for the movies I have bought on it, and as I prefer apple's store to the Xbox one, but I have a laptop for that either way.
Yes, because two companies refuse to adapt to a touch-environment for two products, the entire OS is just bad.
Do you even use logic?
Oh yeah, that makes so much sense. As long as Best Buy or any other retailer BUYS 100 million copies of Windows 8 (even if their customers aren't buying it from them) that's considered SOLD.
Please reference my last statement if you have any questions.
Yeah, you're right, paying for music is definitely better than streaming high quality music I choose for free.
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How about waiting for an improvement to iTunes on OS X before porting it to Windows?
How about an improvement to MacOS first before fixing iTunes. That dinosaur of an OS is really showing it's age. Ditto for iOS. Apple is really showing why they're getting the image of being a company that makes products for the elderly.
I have heard good things about Civilization V in Windows 8 touch mode. I doubt you would try to run that on Windows RT.
People are making the strange connection that all copies of Windows 8 cannot run iTunes. Metro would target the touch interface along with x86/ARM. ARM being the big one here.
But the app is horrible. It's buggy, laggy, and it just doesn't have the depth of music that the iTunes library has.
I can understand there not being a Steam app for Windows RT. How would it work? The games that are on Steam are x86 apps.
Why wouldn't Apple help Windows?
Windows helps Apple by their deal with providing Office, which
apple does not have as good a writing product of their own for apparently..
(does iWork even still exist?) -
I really think Apple could be friendly about this.
And Windows 8 is great, and I enjoy using iTunes in the desktop mode, it's fine, but I'd be curious to see what a Metro version would be like.
Windows helps Apple by their deal with providing Office, which
apple does not have as good a writing product of their own for apparently..
(does iWork even still exist?) -
I really think Apple could be friendly about this.
And Windows 8 is great, and I enjoy using iTunes in the desktop mode, it's fine, but I'd be curious to see what a Metro version would be like.
They're a hardware company. Money they make off iTunes is marginal compared to money they make by selling iPads.
Even if the number of iTunes users goes up by, the additional revenue will be more than offset by revenue lost from people who use it as a reason to buy a Win8 tablet instead of an iPad.
The tradeoff doesn't work in Apple's favor
Why give Windows 8 such a bad rep?
I like Windows 8 and it is faster though it takes getting used to.
I like Windows 8 and it is faster though it takes getting used to.
Amazon opportunity ??
Does Amazon have a Metro app to access their music and videos? Could be an opportunity for Amazon, or another strike against Surface.
Does Amazon have a Metro app to access their music and videos? Could be an opportunity for Amazon, or another strike against Surface.
The thing is, Microsoft don't mention the Desktop going away any time soon, so why should Apple build an iTunes app that _HAS_ to run full-screen just for the benefit of a live tile?
Until Metro apps can run windowed on the desktop, I don't think there's any point in making a new app for Windows 8.
Until Metro apps can run windowed on the desktop, I don't think there's any point in making a new app for Windows 8.
If Microsoft hadn't entered the tablet/pc hardware market, there would be more reason for Office on the iPad, provided of course that they could have come to a mutually satisfying financial arrangement. Microsoft needs this edge for whatever advantage it may provide for them to get into the table os market. Who knows what will happen. They could kill the Surface tomorrow and it wouldn't surprise me. Personally I see the Surface Pro as the product that they can compete with now. I think that Windows RT has a ways to go yet. And again personally, I see RT more as competition for Android than I do iOS.
If the availability of iTunes is such an important factor for that consumer, meaning he uses iTunes alot and has an iPhone, I don't think he will ever consider a W8 tablet, with or without iTunes.
They just don't like to give the customer what they want, rather tell them what they should want.
Well, look at it this way -- antagonists always say that iTunes is terrible. If that is the case, this is the perfect opportunity to develop Zune or Google Play or Amazon MP3 / Amazon Instant Video into iTunes killers.
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What you don't understand is that 90% of the people are not poweruser and NOT spending their time on technical forums and blogs.
You live in your world with people that knows technology. That's why Android people always bashin around will never understand why Apple is still selling a lot of products.
They don't understand design.