How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing

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With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe. But I can summarize that plan’s fatal flaw in one word: iTunes.

Considering that iTunes is the software behind one of Apple's money making streams, it is very unlike-Apple in terms of aesthetics and use. Steve Jobs insists, less is more but I wish he would take a look at iTunes.

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“How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3637] was published Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 3:24 pm by Patrix, filed under Asides. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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http://www.semanticoverload.com Semantic Overload
Back in the day when I used an iPod, getting iTunes to work well with my music library (and the way I organized my library manually) was an incredibly painful task. In fact, I had to ‘repair’ iTunes database regularly because I had to move my media files around (I organized my media files in folders that dais DVD 1, DVD 2, DVD 3, and so on for easier back up mechanisms). Things got so unwieldy that I ended up ditching iTunes for winamp. Its unfortunate to see that Apple has done little to make things better.
http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix
@Semantic Overload: The one thing that pisses me off about software is bloat. If it tries to do many things instead of doing one thing well, it has already failed. As the author says, it is a wonder it still works

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