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It works well for me on Windows but there are no significant performance improvements. Design is no doubt better. I still wonder why Apple doesn't use their $1
by ishansharma 14y ago
It works well for me on Windows but there are no significant performance improvements. Design is no doubt better.
I still wonder why Apple doesn't use their $100 billion to get some A-grade software engineers. Steve Jobs used to boast about A-level players and all that. But current mess that iTunes is can't be from A-level players.
And don't even get me started on Safari for Windows. Apple just seems to have dropped ball completely on it!
- jfb 14y agoI wonder who you think works on clang/llvm (or CoreAudio, or xnu, or Quicktime)? People who can't get jobs writing Rails models for consumer web startups?
- olgeni 14y ago> I wonder who you think works on clang/llvm (or CoreAudio, or xnu, or Quicktime)? People smart enough not to get anywhere near iTunes? (really, would you trade clang or kernel dev for that?)
- jfb 14y agoTouché! In fairness, though, the iTunes client team is a lot smaller than most people probably realize. Problems with the software are almost certainly the fault of management trying to do more with less, and not the competence (in my experience, extremely high) of the individual devs.
- ishansharma 14y agoThe point was that a lot of Apple customers and iTunes is only Apple software they use(Windows). If it is so bad, it does not make a good impression. A company can't go around saying that they put best devs and people on work with this bad software around! Granted, iTunes 11 is an improvement but it's still not very different from iTunes 10!
- blktiger 14y agoApple did drop the ball on it... they said they are no longer going to do any development work on it. It's just as well, if you want a good browser on Windows you should be using Chrome or Firefox anyway.
- ishansharma 14y agoI have been using Chrome for long. I went to Safari because it had a better fullscreen mode. Chrome has this strange mode where not even omnibar is shown. How in the world am I supposed to go to a different site there?
- wildranter 14y agoTalk is cheap man. Show us a piece of working code on par with let's say the iOS APIs, and then you can pull that one off again.
- ishansharma 14y agoThat's a good idea! I will work on that. I'm in college and making something like this may get me arrested or an internship in Apple! ;)