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The only reason iTunes seems to be essential is because there is almost no competition on OSX. Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to

by miah_ 16y ago

The only reason iTunes seems to be essential is because there is almost no competition on OSX. Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to most Windows based software. I only use Skype to video chat with my daughters and it could be easily swapped over to Google chat + Video.

Apocryphon 16y ago
I'm not talking about just iTunes and Skype, though. I can think of several consumer programs that have become more bloated with worse UIs over time- AIM, Ad-Aware, Windows Media Player, Firefox... It seems rather inevitable.
- erikpukinskis 16y ago
  Netscape was a classic too. I think Windows Explorer gets a nod as well.
- ootachi 16y ago
  What do you dislike about Firefox's UI? I could never go back from Firefox 4 to Firefox 2 or 3.
  - rtaycher 16y ago
    The windows ui got a bit worse(no menubar by default right)
  - guygurari 16y ago
    The orange menu button. I find it distracting.
jackvalentine 16y ago
> Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to most Windows based software. Y'know people like to say this, but I think it's simply untrue. MediaMonkey/Winamp/Songbird/Media Jukebox/FooBar all have the advange they're more flexible & have greater format support, but for simply listing and playing and managing your music, iTunes is far nicer. All music managers are horrible to some extent, I am left wondering why.