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iTunes could be the bootstrapper that installs a slimmed down version of itself and the other broken out applications.
by snprbob86 17y ago
iTunes could be the bootstrapper that installs a slimmed down version of itself and the other broken out applications.
- bruceboughton 17y agoYes, and then you have to teach your users about this new program... for what exactly?
- mstevens 17y agoYou stop having to teach new users that a program called iTunes does a wide variety of non tune related tasks.
- bruceboughton 17y agoThere's quite a large install base to retrain. The iPhone is, uhhh, pretty popular. Also, iTunes opens automatically when you plug an iDevice in which mitigates some of this problem.
- bobbyi 17y agoMitigates? The fact that iTunes is going to load up ever time I plug in my ipod to charge it makes the software's bloatedness way worse.
- superchink 17y agoI'm pretty sure you can disable this behavior with a checkbox.
- glhaynes 17y agoImagine the Internet Outrage they'd get over iTunes "installing all these new apps and who knows what spyware all over my computer". I agree with you, it sucks (though, it's not the end of the world) that it all goes through iTunes... and if they still only supported Macs, I bet they'd have broken some of this stuff out by now. But it's tricky in a Windows/Mac world.