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It's time to break up iTunes. Like a bank that has become too big to fail, iTunes has become this massive hub that manages everything from audio and video sync
by mortenjorck 16y ago
It's time to break up iTunes.
Like a bank that has become too big to fail, iTunes has become this massive hub that manages everything from audio and video syncing to mobile file and app management. Mobile device interaction not relating to multimedia needs to be offloaded to a renovated iSync, or better yet, Finder needs to be updated to integrate the iOS anti-filesystem. Photos, apps, app files -- all hierarchically listed with MacFUSE-like simplicity, but probably with a more context-appropriate UI than the standard Finder view.
- djacobs 16y agoI like the idea of Finder handling multiple types of filesystems. Seems like an elegant solution to this problem to me -- move device management out of applications and into the operating system, where that should be. The elegance of that solution seems too much for Apple to ignore. I wonder if this could prompt Apple to adopt Fuse as a means of filesystem abstraction in Finder?