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Why do people say iTunes is bad on Windows?
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I think in general, it's the stability and ease of use that is better on OS X than on Windows. To me, on Windows, it feels clunky and unrefined.
iTunes sucks for anything other than music on both Windows and Mac. That's just my opinion.
Honestly, Apple should have created a different app to sync your iDevice with, or at least made it less painful. Want to get a ringtone on to your device? Copy it off, then add it in to iTunes and then sync. Movies, photos, books? Same deal. Oh want to do all of that with your iPhone 5, but you only own a PowerPC Mac? We're sorry, buy an Intel Mac and upgrade!
Thank God I'm jailbroken. It's a heck of a lot easier just dropping it on to my phone and then using one or two specific apps to import things correctly.
Honestly, Apple should have created a different app to sync your iDevice with, or at least made it less painful. Want to get a ringtone on to your device? Copy it off, then add it in to iTunes and then sync. Movies, photos, books? Same deal. Oh want to do all of that with your iPhone 5, but you only own a PowerPC Mac? We're sorry, buy an Intel Mac and upgrade!
Thank God I'm jailbroken. It's a heck of a lot easier just dropping it on to my phone and then using one or two specific apps to import things correctly.
It's generally smoother, faster, and more stable on Mac than on Windows. It was always sluggish and clunky when I had a Windows machine even with high end specs.
This. It's not that it really runs that bad anymore. It's just not that it runs particularly well, either.
If you don't have an ssd, updating apps will almost freeze your system. But Steam has also had this issue when updating your games. Since I have an ssd all these issues are gone
I have been using Apple desktops and laptops running Windows for years and years and iTunes runs just as well on Windows as OSX.
I am no fan of iTunes or my forced use of it, but it runs the same on both OS.
I am no fan of iTunes or my forced use of it, but it runs the same on both OS.
because it requires just as much ram and cpu usage as Crysis maxed out with 3 mods installed running at enthusiast settings to function properly. there are many things and factors that can make the app suck, like microsoft, apple and the different OEM vendors, parts, variety of hardware, little effort with coding etc. It's actually good on a Mac.
I don't suffer from that problem anymore, i switched to mac
I don't suffer from that problem anymore, i switched to mac
Don't own a Mac so I can't compare. But iTunes runs faster on my Windows 7 rig (16 gigs RAM) than it does on my iPad, so I have no complaints.
Plus, my desktop speakers are better.
Plus, my desktop speakers are better.
Exactly, it's a way better experience. And sometimes even more reliable as well: I often had some error codes when downloading new iOS updates in iTunes on a Windows machine, but never experienced something like that on OS X.
iTunes constantly freezes and constantly stops responding and lags and closes all the time for me on windows. It's simply better on the Mac.
It runs a lot of intensive background processes even when iTunes itself is not running and the requirement to have Apple Software Updater running too is a massive annoyance to many Windows users as it slows their already fragmented and unoptomised systems down even more.