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Why do people say iTunes is bad on Windows?
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I don't know if it's all in my mind but I do feel like iTunes run smoother and better on my mac compared to using it on a friend's PC.
Is there any truth to this?
Is there any truth to this?
My computer is from 2010, and unfortunately SSD is still ridiculously expensive. Hopefully it'll be the norm with higher capacities at a reasonable price soon
I've been using iTunes on Windows for about 10 years now (initially only for managing my music, now of course also for device syncing and video content) and had few problems. I never quite understood why so many people seem to be complaining about it (or perhaps they are just a vocal minority?).
It doesn't really consume a lot of resources (playing back music it currently consumes about 98MB memory according to the task manager), and yes, you can uninstall Apple Software Update if the tiny background process bothers you. Video playback via the Quicktime engine traditionally doesn't seem to make good use of hardware acceleration on Windows, but I rarely watch movies/tv shows on my computer anyway. The only other thing that feels sluggish on my PC is listing the apps installed on a connected mobile device, but that is slow on Mac OS too (I assume because it must fetch the list from the device via USB). Occasionally I had problems connecting devices after an update (somehow the USB driver sometimes seems to get uninstalled), but could always fix it with a repair install.
Overall, I'm just as happy with it on Windows as on Mac OS. I have yet to see a credible alternative on either platform.
It doesn't really consume a lot of resources (playing back music it currently consumes about 98MB memory according to the task manager), and yes, you can uninstall Apple Software Update if the tiny background process bothers you. Video playback via the Quicktime engine traditionally doesn't seem to make good use of hardware acceleration on Windows, but I rarely watch movies/tv shows on my computer anyway. The only other thing that feels sluggish on my PC is listing the apps installed on a connected mobile device, but that is slow on Mac OS too (I assume because it must fetch the list from the device via USB). Occasionally I had problems connecting devices after an update (somehow the USB driver sometimes seems to get uninstalled), but could always fix it with a repair install.
Overall, I'm just as happy with it on Windows as on Mac OS. I have yet to see a credible alternative on either platform.
Though they should indeed make a separate app for syncing iDevices, it's unreasonable to expect that anything Apple releases in the year 2014 will support the small number of PowerPC Macs still in use as primary machines.
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but not here.
The iPhone 4s can still be detected by iTunes 10.6.4. Install iOS 7 and you have to have a minimum of iTunes 10.7 to work with a 4s. Same 30 pin connector, just a difference in OS. The code for the iPhone 5 to talk to iTunes 10.6.4 was written, but Apple never connected it.
This is arbitrary. Apple also "cut off" Classic with Tiger. But they didn't tell you that if you copied over a OS9 System folder to Tiger it would still work. Lots of people upgraded because they believed that Tiger killed Classic. But that didn't actually happen until Leopard.
I'm not saying Apple is wrong. I'm just pointing out that their decision to cut things off is often based on a desire to force people to ugrade and not necessarily on the obsolesence of tech.
Such kind of ignorance has the same effect on me.
Living in a cellar is not easy, I suppose...
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It took apple the best part of a year to fix the maximisation bug. That's how much they care about the windows version of iTunes.
It runs OK but there are some interface quirks. Some functions are missing if you don't know how to make them visible.
It has to do with the way the Unix based OS X handles the relationship between hard drive and memory.
The same reason Mac is better for hardcore productivity programs but is bad in games.
It has a more straightforward power setup. So on Windows without an SSD its like a juggernaut.
Almost as if they did a straight port from mac to win and just told windows to deal with it.
Like on Mac things take longer to open but once they are open its smooth. But on windows programs open faster but then are always in a seemingly loading state.
And I think Mac handles large databases more naturally and simply.
If you have tons of music on iTunes in windows it will be very sluggish.
This is also more of a thing from years ago when it was more intense, but windows has SSDs now and that helped a lot.
Probably runs smooth on a fresh install of windows if there aren't too many songs in the database.
But its definitely more sensitive and sluggish than the average simple app.
It seem like music doesnt need that much horsepower, but iTunes is like a database if you think about it. So is the picutres app which can be heavy as well.
The same reason Mac is better for hardcore productivity programs but is bad in games.
It has a more straightforward power setup. So on Windows without an SSD its like a juggernaut.
Almost as if they did a straight port from mac to win and just told windows to deal with it.
Like on Mac things take longer to open but once they are open its smooth. But on windows programs open faster but then are always in a seemingly loading state.
And I think Mac handles large databases more naturally and simply.
If you have tons of music on iTunes in windows it will be very sluggish.
This is also more of a thing from years ago when it was more intense, but windows has SSDs now and that helped a lot.
Probably runs smooth on a fresh install of windows if there aren't too many songs in the database.
But its definitely more sensitive and sluggish than the average simple app.
It seem like music doesnt need that much horsepower, but iTunes is like a database if you think about it. So is the picutres app which can be heavy as well.