Honestly I think it's good old fashioned Developer laziness, and/or marketing. They've whittled down all their Windows offerings to just iTunes for Windows, whi

Honestly I think it's good old fashioned Developer laziness, and/or marketing. They've whittled down all their Windows offerings to just iTunes for Windows, which handles devices, music, streaming, movies, etc. etc. and they don't want to have to develop and maintain multiple applications. And why OS X is infected? They probably share a fair amount of code. It's just feature creep. On iOS you have a Music app, a Podcasts app (which is garbage), a Store app and I believe Movies and whatnot are under videos. It makes a certain degree of sense, yet in OS X universe, all of these are brought down into a single app with just a clusterfuck of a UI. I honestly feel a little bad for whoever has to design it, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to combine all that functionality and feature creep into a UI that felt even a LITTLE coherent, and honestly they do a pretty good job, it's the problem they're handed that should be addressed, i.e. break it up into a few apps.