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iTunes has become Apple's MS Office: it does too much and it's established it's roots so deep a rewrite would be close to impossible without breaking things.
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
iTunes has become Apple's MS Office: it does too much and it's established it's roots so deep a rewrite would be close to impossible without breaking things.
- morsch 14y agoBut Apple users have shown time and time again that they're perfectly willing to live with things breaking for the sake of what they consider progress.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoExcept iTunes contains two bits of functionality Apple can't afford to break: - iPod/iOS sync - iTunes Store Break the primary route to a user's wallet/content, and the Apple experience starts to fall apart.
- taligent 14y agoEstablished its roots ? It is just a standalone app and would be trivial to rewrite or split into its separate parts. The hard bit is in the overall experience. Splitting one app into 5 or 6 was manageable on iOS but could be unwieldy on OSX.