You obviously have no clue.
wow.
back with MORE creative comebacks...
this one was recycled 3 times in less than a day.
Ken is one of those people who thinks everyone who doesn't like what he likes is an idiot.
I'm one of those people who thinks if a design sucks, I won't buy it. And I'll probably bitch about how amazingly stupid a billion dollar company is to alienate half the world.
Apple took the world by storm. They sold something like 170 million units. I'll bet they woulda sold TWICE that many if they didn't insist on iTunes.
Apple relied on the benevolent giant to support Mac, first gen iPod was Mac only. They create iTunes to be supported in Microsoft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ItunesThis is why they shove it up your ass, Kenny. They want your thousands of dollars worth of CD's to be obsolete. The player is a platform, not the real product. More than half my stuff is off my own discs, ripped lossless and then compressed to 320 or 192 mp3, depending on the band. (Floyd would be 320, something like AC/DC would be 192). They want the average users private library to be problematic, and instead buy the tunes online from them.
In iTunes, several of the albums are "unknown artist" but my Sony reads them all. In iTunes, 80% of the cover art is missing, in Windows 80% has art and the missing ones are because there is no art in the folder. I suspect the ones that display cover art in iTunes were probably downloaded from iTunes, meaning 100% of albums ripped and encoded by me did not work properly. (although they work fine in Windows) That 'track record' of theirs regarding my library is fucking awful. I could not, in good conscience, sell a product to the public that performed that way. iTunes (the music source) should be a convienent way to acquire music, not a product that renders your private collection useless.
On January 6, 2009, Phil Schiller announced in his Macworld 2009 keynote speech that over 6 billion songs had been downloaded since the service first launched on April 28, 2003.[36]
At the previous Macworld Expo 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated that the service had set a new single day record of 20 million songs on December 25, 2007. He also announced that the iTunes Store will offer over 1,000 movies for rental by the end of February.[37] The iTunes movie catalog includes content from 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. These movies will also be transferable to all 6th generation iPods.[38]
YOU obviously have no clue. If iTunes was a M$ product
with absolutely no change in design, it would be ridiculed right out of existence.