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This really really annoys me about the ipad. Furthermore, for some extra annoyance, Itunes does not run on linux, so I cannot run it. And even after I secured a

by hristov 16y ago

This really really annoys me about the ipad. Furthermore, for some extra annoyance, Itunes does not run on linux, so I cannot run it. And even after I secured a windows computer to run itunes, I discovered that itunes is a really slow, extremely badly designed, confusing and annoying piece of software. It took me forever to upgrade my ipad to the new os.

code_duck 16y ago
I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version?
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  > I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version? even after I secured a windows computer to run itunes
  - DaveMebs 16y ago
    Apple's version of iTunes on Windows is so much worse than the Mac version, that I can only assume it is intentional. For example, only one user may run iTunes at one time on a PC while multiple users can run it on a Mac. It also shits all over your registry. As a long time Mac iTunes user, I've been pretty frustrated with the Windows version, which I started using 6 months ago. The counter point, however, would be my experience with iTunes and the iPad. Before I had a PC I borrowed an iPad which had just been reset. When I hooked it up to my Mac to connect it with iTunes, I discovered that it was incompatible with OS X 10.4. My mind was blown; how could the iPad not work with their computer when I only bought it 4 and a half years ago?! It works with XP! So I don't know, maybe iTunes sucks everywhere, just in different ways.
    - anonymoushn 16y ago
      I don't mind if iTunes sucks on Windows, because Windows has foobar2000. What really bothers me is that there are no worthwhile alternatives to iTunes for OSX.
      - JadeNB 16y ago
        Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com http://www.getsongbird.com)?
    - code_duck 16y ago
      Safari on Windows is somewhat lousy, too.
- SwellJoe 16y ago
  iTunes is, perhaps, the least intuitive piece of software I've used in the past decade. I have, on three separate occasions now, deleted my entire music collection on the PC while trying to get music from the machine onto the iPod or iPhone. It's happened once on a Mac and twice on the Windows version of iTunes. I no longer even install iTunes, because I'm afraid of it. (I use an Android phone now, don't have an iPad, and I never liked it for listening to music on the desktop, so I don't need it for anything.) But, I find a lot of Apple software really hard to use and frustrating, including the OS itself, so I tend to refer to myself as Appletarded. I may be an outlier; just not wired up to understand Apple user interfaces.
  - mistermann 16y ago
    Same with me...I had to take my laptop in to an apple store so they could show me how to copy some mp3's to my iPhone.
    - SwellJoe 16y ago
      Ah, there was my problem, then. I guess you have to be a genius to understand it.
  - eitland 16y ago
    You are not alone. I've been using Mac OS X for two years and can't belive why the company that came up with iPad and iPhone still - have global menus (who really wants that with todays screen resolutions and two monitors?) - needs the worlds best trackpads because their laptop keyboards have misplaced ctrl and their default keybindings are so inconsistent that users would be lost without a good pointing device. - forces developers to use the fn key to reach the function keys, but even then, maps some of the F-keys to operating system functions. - doesn't get multiple desktops? Don't ask me why they ship them, because their window management is so broken that multiple desktops just doesn't work, at least not for me. This becomes increasingly frustrating as - none of the other manufacturers "gets" tablets even less ships them, - none of them was capable of coming up with mag safe, - Microsoft doesn't have the balls to stop OEMs from crippling a perfectly good enough (for less advanced users at least) operating system - and Canonical have crippled Gnome to the point where you can't shut down your computer without either using a pointing device or resorting to a shell. Edit: Forgot iTunes. Try have someone who doesn't know iTunes burn a cd. (Hint: You have to make a playlist out of it, then burn that playlist to a cd.) Also tried to tidy up this rant.
JoshTriplett 16y ago
You can activate an iPad without using iTunes. Try iDeviceActivate: https://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate/ https://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate/
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by hristov 16y ago

code_duck 16y ago

I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version?

w1ntermute 16y ago
> I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version? even after I secured a windows computer to run itunes
- DaveMebs 16y ago
  Apple's version of iTunes on Windows is so much worse than the Mac version, that I can only assume it is intentional. For example, only one user may run iTunes at one time on a PC while multiple users can run it on a Mac. It also shits all over your registry. As a long time Mac iTunes user, I've been pretty frustrated with the Windows version, which I started using 6 months ago. The counter point, however, would be my experience with iTunes and the iPad. Before I had a PC I borrowed an iPad which had just been reset. When I hooked it up to my Mac to connect it with iTunes, I discovered that it was incompatible with OS X 10.4. My mind was blown; how could the iPad not work with their computer when I only bought it 4 and a half years ago?! It works with XP! So I don't know, maybe iTunes sucks everywhere, just in different ways.
  - anonymoushn 16y ago
    I don't mind if iTunes sucks on Windows, because Windows has foobar2000. What really bothers me is that there are no worthwhile alternatives to iTunes for OSX.
    - JadeNB 16y ago
      Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com http://www.getsongbird.com)?
  - code_duck 16y ago
    Safari on Windows is somewhat lousy, too.
SwellJoe 16y ago
iTunes is, perhaps, the least intuitive piece of software I've used in the past decade. I have, on three separate occasions now, deleted my entire music collection on the PC while trying to get music from the machine onto the iPod or iPhone. It's happened once on a Mac and twice on the Windows version of iTunes. I no longer even install iTunes, because I'm afraid of it. (I use an Android phone now, don't have an iPad, and I never liked it for listening to music on the desktop, so I don't need it for anything.) But, I find a lot of Apple software really hard to use and frustrating, including the OS itself, so I tend to refer to myself as Appletarded. I may be an outlier; just not wired up to understand Apple user interfaces.
- mistermann 16y ago
  Same with me...I had to take my laptop in to an apple store so they could show me how to copy some mp3's to my iPhone.
  - SwellJoe 16y ago
    Ah, there was my problem, then. I guess you have to be a genius to understand it.
- eitland 16y ago
  You are not alone. I've been using Mac OS X for two years and can't belive why the company that came up with iPad and iPhone still - have global menus (who really wants that with todays screen resolutions and two monitors?) - needs the worlds best trackpads because their laptop keyboards have misplaced ctrl and their default keybindings are so inconsistent that users would be lost without a good pointing device. - forces developers to use the fn key to reach the function keys, but even then, maps some of the F-keys to operating system functions. - doesn't get multiple desktops? Don't ask me why they ship them, because their window management is so broken that multiple desktops just doesn't work, at least not for me. This becomes increasingly frustrating as - none of the other manufacturers "gets" tablets even less ships them, - none of them was capable of coming up with mag safe, - Microsoft doesn't have the balls to stop OEMs from crippling a perfectly good enough (for less advanced users at least) operating system - and Canonical have crippled Gnome to the point where you can't shut down your computer without either using a pointing device or resorting to a shell. Edit: Forgot iTunes. Try have someone who doesn't know iTunes burn a cd. (Hint: You have to make a playlist out of it, then burn that playlist to a cd.) Also tried to tidy up this rant.

JoshTriplett 16y ago

You can activate an iPad without using iTunes. Try iDeviceActivate: https://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate/ https://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate/

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