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Posted by Bonge Boo! on 01/01/06 17:29
On 1/1/06 16:53, in article MPG.1e21d2ed5ad90c559896a5@fe04.buzzardnews.com,
"S.I.N." <dontellme@what.to.do.com> wrote:
>> No. Look the software is free.
> And a bit overpriced, at that.
Don't be silly.
>> Just download a copy of it and play.
> Play very carefully, like you would with any badly behaved little poodle.
Why? And if you're that obsessive about your data you'd have a backup. So
who gives a toss if it messes your file structure. Just rewind.
>> You're
>> obviously bright. Itunes will take you all of 30 seconds to work out. Then
>> if you don't like it, dump it.
>
> Then after you dump it, if you naively allowed it to do any of the things
> it wanted to do while you were "playing" with it, you can spend the next
> few days redoing the entire music filing system it has mucked up on your
> computer.
Or just tick the boxes that says "don't move my files when adding them to
iTunes" As I said, he's a bright boy, he'll be in the Preferences like a
shot.
> That is, if you don't get convinced that "thinking outside the box"
> whilst following along with the rest of the McSheeple and doing whatever
> the mcfuck they are told is best for them is the way to go.
Sigh. Making simple things difficult just for the sake of it isn't big or
clever. Its a big waste of time. Now if he was a Linux user who had no
choice I'd have understood.
> As you sound like you are "obviously bright" and do some of your own
> thinking, I'm doubting this last part will happen but stranger things
> have indeed happened...like when a whole slew of seemingly intelligent
> people bought into a bunch of overhyped and overpriced crap from an
> arrogant little company whose entire success is based on form and design
> rather than function and whose market is gained by huge advertising
> blitzes aimed at impressionable youth selling a "lifestyle" rather than a
> product and protected and maintained by proprietary practices rather than
> any sort of product superiority.
<shrug> Having played with various MP3 over the years its blindingly obvious
the reason the iPod is popular is because they themselves work better than
anything else yet invented, and iTunes enables people to quickly and simply
organize their music and transer to their music player. Sony's latest
aberration is a case in point. Utterly pathetic.</shrug>
Apple are a greedy, arrogant company. But they got iPod/iTunes right when no
one else has. So bully for them. The whole point is the combination of iPod
and iTunes makes them a pleasure to use. Having an iPod but not using iTunes
defeats the purpose. There are plenty of similar or better specification
music players at lower cost. If you're not gonna use iTunes, save a few quid
and buy one of them. Paying top whack for the ease of use then making it
difficult to use is... Perverse.
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