I will be candid: I hate iTunes. Adn that has a history. >From 1990 to 1999 I was a total Apple nut and a stronghold for Macs in an enterprise environment that increasingly went Windows. And don't get me wrong: I think Windows is bloated and flawed and I am not a gullgible fan that will ever claim technology superiority, but I think one thing that MSFT has done is that they have evolved beyond the illusion (and legal consequences thereof) that they can try to be controlling and dictate the entire product application stack. Which is the huge Apple illusion, and will prove to be their downfall if they grab significant market share again.
Apple's bullish determination to own everything not only stinks of a doomed attempt at a monopoly, but also shortchanges users with solutions that are less flexible and agile than they ought to be. iTunes tries to be too many things to too many devices and too many people and too many devices and, as far as I am concerned, has already miserable failed. It is a piece of crap. I used it a while ago, I have long since stepped away from it. It does many things very easily for a large audience, but does nothing particularly well for a more discerning audience. Sounds more and more loike the MSFT story of the late 90s around the browser wars and what not. In any case, and to cut a long story short - heck no. I do not look for lazy shortcuts. I look for flexibility and openness, and Apple has no longer anything to offer there. They try to hold their user base more captive than Microsoft ever attempted to. And that will hurt them. Not right away, but in the mid term. Their differentiation is image. Their substance is wearing thin. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: Shuttle X27D - Ubuntu 8.04LTS - SBS 7.4.1 Sources: SB3 (3), SB Boom (3), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v - Creek OBH21/22 Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower (tuned) - Audioengine 5/S8 - Acoustic Energy Aego M Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72333 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
