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They should rebuild iTunes from the ground up. Unlike iTunes, users have alternatives to go to for maps.
by tcmb 8y ago
They should rebuild iTunes from the ground up. Unlike iTunes, users have alternatives to go to for maps.
- michaelhoffman 8y agoThat means they have a captive audience and don't need to do more to keep them on iTunes.
- tcmb 8y agoYou're right about the incentive, but it's an insult to their users from a company that claims to care about UX so much. They should just be ashamed of it and try to get something better out as soon as they can. Sorry for ranting so much about iTunes in this thread, and from some other comments maybe I don't need to use it as much as I thought I'd have to. But then again, why do I have to use third-party apps for e.g. podcast client and music player. Those are such a central appliances that they should really be served well by Apple, who even include things like iMovie and Garage Band with their OS.
- dep_b 8y agoThere's already some stuff transferred to Apple Configurator that used to be in iTunes.
- ibdf 8y agoSpotify and Google Music comes to mind, but I guess it depends on what you use itunes for - which is also probably the issues with iTunes.. it does too much too poorly.
- amelius 8y agoYes. I don't get why Apple is often praised for getting UI "right", when iTunes, one of the central components of their system, is clearly a design gone bad.
- ebikelaw 8y agoHow it is central? I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. What's it good for?
- rileymat2 8y agoiTunes was pretty essential to interacting with the iPhone in the past. Backups and such. I am not sure this is the case in the present with the reliance on iCloud.
- scarface74 8y agoYou haven't needed iTunes for anything except putting your own music on your device since iOS 5 in the summer of 2011. You can even do that without iTunes if you pay $25 a year for iTunes Match.
- rileymat2 8y ago>I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. I was responding to this.
- tcmb 8y agoHonest question, how do you use iTunes match without iTunes? I thought you'd have to add music to your library first in order for it to be matched and available on mobile? My original comment was about iTunes on desktop, although the mobile version is also confusing and counter-intuitive, but much less buggy.
- scarface74 8y agoTrue. My hatred for iTunes involves syncing with iOS devices. I don't mind iTunes for music management. You still can't create smart playlists and do some of the advanced music management stuff on the iPhone but you can sync playlists etc. without connecting your phone with it. I never knew exactly what type of catastrophe would happen to my iPhone when it "synced" with iTunes.
- forgot-my-pw 8y agoThat's why they don't bother fixing. Because you have no choice :(
- Someone1234 8y agoThey should just turn it into a web-site. I used to use iTunes extensively, but have since switched to Vudu (Walmart), Amazon Digital, and Play/YT for my digital rentals because I'd prefer to watch them in a browser or on a Roku, neither of which are possible in the iTunes/Apple ecosystem. One big reason why is that browser video streaming is extremely reliable on a reasonable connection, but iTunes' rental buffering was a huge headache last I tried to use it (and the data usage significantly higher than browser video for some reason, even at the same resolution).
- lttlrck 8y agoslowly getting there: https://developer.apple.com/musickit/ https://developer.apple.com/musickit/
- jeffbax 8y agoReally hope this means that DJ Pro can finally use Apple Music like it can w/ Spotify
- barkerja 8y agoCan't anyone now do this with the newly released MusicKit JS? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs
- MBCook 8y agoWe don’t know they’re not. There have been hints they might be.
- jjuel 8y agoGeneral curiosity since I haven't used iTunes in forever. What does it do that you cannot do anywhere else?
- tcmb 8y agoIt's like the shabby gate to Apple's walled garden paradise. You need it to get data into and out from your iPhone, iPod, iPad, to access Apple Music, and probably other things related to iCloud services.