Originally posted by ~Wålshy~
give me 5 formal reasons why itunes suck?
1. No plugin architecture. What was Apple thinking? There’s no good way for anyone to listen to songs in file formats other than AAC and MP3. This is completely idiotic and also indicative of Apple’s corporate spirit: you can do what we want you to do and that’s it. And while that may simplify some things sometimes, it cuts out a whole range of other options that would make iTunes more usable. How does Firefox do it? They ship a bare-bones browser that has a usable plugin (or extension) architecture, allowing Firefox to be used for anything anybody wants. And if they don’t want it, they don’t have to have it. If you want to use your browser to control your media player, your garage door, your stove, and your instant messanger, you can. That’s the beauty of it. iTunes, on the other hand, lets you do exactly what Apple wants you to do. That’s draconian.
2. It’s HUGE. I don’t want your program to suck up all my RAM just to listen to music. I mean I understand VLC using 40mb of RAM to render video, but this is just ridiculous. If all that chrome is making the program chug like a Russian train, it’s time to do something different. At least give people the option to turn off “features” they don’t use. Or offer a lightweight version of iTunes for people who want it to just, you know, play music.
3. For all the chrome polish Apple supposedly invested in, there are some glaring things wrong. For instance, if I hit the pause button when iTunes is behind another window, it doesn’t pause; it brings iTunes forward so I can press the pause button yet again. This is a stupid extra step that doesn’t conform with anyother windows program in existance. Listen up, Apple! This is not a Mac in front of me - don’t make it act like one!
4. The iTunes XML library is simply idiotic. Why, let me ask you, should the XML file be corrupted when my computer bluescreens because my graphics driver is acting up? Is Apple not sophisticated enough a company to at least make an index file that isn’t made of china? I’m using Windows here, not a stable OS.
5. No support for Linux, guys? Wow. Your entire OS is built from FreeBSD - how hard would it be port iTunes and set up a repository or make an RPM or something, anything at all? I don’t want to call Apple FOSS-stealing commie bastards, but yeah. They are.There you have it. My little rant on iTunes. I don’t use it for anything except to sync to my iPod (which is suprisingly nice in comparison if you can compare iTunes to an iPod). And by the way - if there is any other way to transfer music to my iPod, I’d love to know about it. Really.