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It served its purpose. Back in 2009, iTunes on Windows was fantastic.

NikolaNovak 5y ago
I think that is not a universally agreed upon statement. Checking my receipts, at that time I paid significant money to 3rd parties to sync my iPods to PC without iTunes. It was massively over bloated for what I needed it to do, UI was behind, and once installed it refused to uninstall itself. (and same continues today. My wife has recognized the sound coming from my office when, every few months , I try to copy photos from my work-mandated iPhone to my windows pc. It's a few hours of screaming, then I give up) It's tricky. If they don't provide key software for Windows to work with their hardware devices, they'll be blamed for it and called an evil proprietary company (which, fair enough. Just let me plug it as USB storage if you want to avoid that particular reputation :). On the other hand, if they make their crucial software on Windows half assed, some people like myself at least, will be wary of touching anything Apple with 10ft pole. It May be that working strictly in Apple ecosystem makes for better experience, but that's not my world so I'm not tempted to dip my toes in any more than I have to).
temp8964 5y ago
I tried to use iTunes in 2012(?). iTunes is the most confusing software I have ever used. Maybe it was good in 2009? I wouldn't know.
- salamandersauce 5y ago
  It wasn't good then either. Still a bloated mess and even worse you were more forced to use it as literally nothing else could do something like put a CBZ in a 3rd party app unless it happened to support Dropbox or something similar. It's just terrible.
- masklinn 5y ago
  > Maybe it was good in 2009? It was not. Though at least it did the job, which was rare enough (then again I’ve had to use sonicstage, now that was some bottom-tier irredeemable garbage). I’m pretty sure iTunes was at its best when it was SoundJam and got worse every time it got touched afterwards, until Apple managed to declare software bankruptcy… and replace it by something worse than it’d ever been.

I think that is not a universally agreed upon statement. Checking my receipts, at that time I paid significant money to 3rd parties to sync my iPods to PC without iTunes. It was massively over bloated for what I needed it to do, UI was behind, and once installed it refused to uninstall itself. (and same continues today. My wife has recognized the sound coming from my office when, every few months , I try to copy photos from my work-mandated iPhone to my windows pc. It's a few hours of screaming, then I give up) It's tricky. If they don't provide key software for Windows to work with their hardware devices, they'll be blamed for it and called an evil proprietary company (which, fair enough. Just let me plug it as USB storage if you want to avoid that particular reputation :). On the other hand, if they make their crucial software on Windows half assed, some people like myself at least, will be wary of touching anything Apple with 10ft pole. It May be that working strictly in Apple ecosystem makes for better experience, but that's not my world so I'm not tempted to dip my toes in any more than I have to).

temp8964 5y ago

I tried to use iTunes in 2012(?). iTunes is the most confusing software I have ever used. Maybe it was good in 2009? I wouldn't know.

salamandersauce 5y ago
It wasn't good then either. Still a bloated mess and even worse you were more forced to use it as literally nothing else could do something like put a CBZ in a 3rd party app unless it happened to support Dropbox or something similar. It's just terrible.
masklinn 5y ago
> Maybe it was good in 2009? It was not. Though at least it did the job, which was rare enough (then again I’ve had to use sonicstage, now that was some bottom-tier irredeemable garbage). I’m pretty sure iTunes was at its best when it was SoundJam and got worse every time it got touched afterwards, until Apple managed to declare software bankruptcy… and replace it by something worse than it’d ever been.