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I'm not making a technical claim. I know what an operating system is. I'm making a claim about general mac users. I don't know a single person (even amongst th
by boucher 17y ago
I'm not making a technical claim. I know what an operating system is. I'm making a claim about general mac users.
I don't know a single person (even amongst the techies) who has uninstalled iTunes from their mac. I know few people who don't use it every single day. If you use an iPhone, or an iPod, you use iTunes. There is no supported alternative. There isn't even a widely used alternative for just playing music on the mac.
On another level, Snow Leopard, the operating system Apple is shipping, is not just about Mac OS X proper. iTunes ships with Snow Leopard, along with probably a hundred other applications. They come installed. They are part of the product. And to the vast majority of the computer using population, there is no distinction between those two things.
- tptacek 17y agoI'm sorry, but your argument that iTunes is "central" to the OS X experience is totally unconvincing. The logic you're employing here implies that Grapher.app is also central to the experience. If you're not playing music and you don't own an iPhone, you simply don't ever run iTunes. On the other hand, there's probably no Macbook use case that avoids Safari, Finder, and either MS Office or Pages.app.