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Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groc

Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.

SandB0x 16y ago
Not an Emacs user, I take it?
- elcron 16y ago
  I consider emacs more of OS/environment rather than an application... but I've started to become an emacs addict over the past year.
  - sz 16y ago
    "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"
thought_alarm 16y ago
You can always use QuickTime Player (or an antique version of WinAmp) if that's all you want.
- crowsfan85 16y ago
  Yes, Winamp 2.95 still is outstanding. Simple, functional, tiny footprint, etc. Get it here: http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html and apply AlpineAmp skin: http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/4571 http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/4571 The lesson- Sometimes newer and more "features" != better.
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protomyth 16y ago
On the Mac side, there are a couple of widgets that use your iTunes library but provide a very simple / non-cluttered interface.
unfletch 16y ago
In the words of Anil Dash, after this morning's announcement, "This is my favorite app for editing ringtones, copying presentations to my iPad, telling friends I'm going to a concert & watching TV!" http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/22732156912 http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/22732156912
telemachos 16y ago
In the case of Google, this is pretty much exactly where they are headed (by design): "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," he elaborates. "They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." Let's say you're walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there's a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you've been reading about took place on the next block. Says Mr. Schmidt, a generation of powerful handheld devices is just around the corner that will be adept at surprising you with information that you didn't know you wanted to know. "The thing that makes newspapers so fundamentally fascinating—that serendipity—can be calculated now. We can actually produce it electronically," Mr. Schmidt says. Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870490110457542...
jsz0 16y ago
What one simple thing is iTunes supposed to do? From early on it's been a multi-function program. It would be very difficult to pick out a small subset of features to point at as the core functionality of iTunes since from the early days it's been a music player, CD ripper, store, device manager, etc. Probably the last major new category of functionality added before Ping (which arguably is just an extension of the store) was video playback.
- statictype 16y ago
  Music player + CD Ripper can be the simple thing it's supposed to do. Move the music and app store into a separate app. Move the device manager into a separate app. Move the social networking into the cloud.
GeneralMaximus 16y ago
Me and a friend have been trying to write a small app that only manages and plays music. Sadly, CoreAudio is proving to be a pain in the butt :(

Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.

SandB0x 16y ago

Not an Emacs user, I take it?

elcron 16y ago
I consider emacs more of OS/environment rather than an application... but I've started to become an emacs addict over the past year.
- sz 16y ago
  "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"

thought_alarm 16y ago

You can always use QuickTime Player (or an antique version of WinAmp) if that's all you want.

crowsfan85 16y ago
Yes, Winamp 2.95 still is outstanding. Simple, functional, tiny footprint, etc. Get it here: http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html and apply AlpineAmp skin: http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/4571 http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/4571 The lesson- Sometimes newer and more "features" != better.

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protomyth 16y ago

On the Mac side, there are a couple of widgets that use your iTunes library but provide a very simple / non-cluttered interface.

unfletch 16y ago

In the words of Anil Dash, after this morning's announcement, "This is my favorite app for editing ringtones, copying presentations to my iPad, telling friends I'm going to a concert & watching TV!" http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/22732156912 http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/22732156912

telemachos 16y ago

In the case of Google, this is pretty much exactly where they are headed (by design): "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," he elaborates. "They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." Let's say you're walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there's a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you've been reading about took place on the next block. Says Mr. Schmidt, a generation of powerful handheld devices is just around the corner that will be adept at surprising you with information that you didn't know you wanted to know. "The thing that makes newspapers so fundamentally fascinating—that serendipity—can be calculated now. We can actually produce it electronically," Mr. Schmidt says. Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870490110457542...

jsz0 16y ago

What one simple thing is iTunes supposed to do? From early on it's been a multi-function program. It would be very difficult to pick out a small subset of features to point at as the core functionality of iTunes since from the early days it's been a music player, CD ripper, store, device manager, etc. Probably the last major new category of functionality added before Ping (which arguably is just an extension of the store) was video playback.

statictype 16y ago
Music player + CD Ripper can be the simple thing it's supposed to do. Move the music and app store into a separate app. Move the device manager into a separate app. Move the social networking into the cloud.

GeneralMaximus 16y ago

Me and a friend have been trying to write a small app that only manages and plays music. Sadly, CoreAudio is proving to be a pain in the butt :(