{"id":51,"date":"2007-07-22T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/itunes-rantings\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:32:38","slug":"itunes-rantings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/itunes-rantings\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes rantings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes Apple computers so popular is their supposedly intuitively-to-use software. I have to admit that I can&#8217;t comment on &#8220;native&#8221; (read: MacOS) Apple software, but I <em>can <\/em>comment on Apple&#8217;s Windows software and my comments aren&#8217;t exactly favorable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I installed Apple&#8217;s latest iTunes software for Windows. I had already played around with a previous version of iTunes (4.x I think) which I didn&#8217;t like very much then, because it was &#8220;sluggish&#8221; even on fast computers (because it obviously didn&#8217;t make use of multithreading so it blocked every now and then,) not very well integrated into the Windows desktop, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Apple didn&#8217;t make their homework. iTunes still is very sluggish to use (at least on my 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM machine,) and it&#8217;s also not very intuitive to use. Let me give you an example: I configured iTunes not to use the &#8220;1-click buy&#8221; feature, but to use a shopping cart. I bought a song and wanted to download it. I searched around, but couldn&#8217;t find the shopping cart, no matter where I looked. I finally found it in a different iTunes window, that was laying around <em>under <\/em>the current window. Hey, is <em>this <\/em>intuitive???<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another thing I strongly dislike is that you obviously can&#8217;t deauthorize PCs you don&#8217;t have any access to anymore. I recently had to reinstall my complete PC because I lost a hard drive by hardware failure. Therefore I had to reinstall iTunes, too. I noticed that two PCs are authorized, namely the original installation plus my new installation. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any way to deauthorize the destroyed installation. What I find even much more serious is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to re-download my previously purchased songs. Hey, Apple, do you listen??? Do you really expect me to buy the songs again???<\/p>\n<p>No, thanks. If <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>the so-much praised Apple software, I think I don&#8217;t need to switch. I can have that kind of &#8220;quality software&#8221; under Windoze, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2007-07-28: <\/strong>I complained to iTunes support about the fact that I can&#8217;t redownload the songs purchased. Here&#8217;s their (German) response which, quite honestly, was a very pleasant surprise for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple erlaubt Ihnen diese Artikel erneut kostenlos zu laden. Wir machen Sie darauf aufmerksam, da\u00df es Ihnen nur einmal m\u00f6glich ist diese Eink\u00e4ufe zu laden. Dies ist eine einmalige Ausnahme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the English translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple allows you to redownload these articles for free. Please note that you can only download these purchases once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Apple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes Apple computers so popular is their supposedly intuitively-to-use software. 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