Rant number 59
Apple is a company that makes great gear - like really good stuff (if a little pricey.) I am on my second mac laptop, my wife owns a mini mac. You could say we were mac fans - and if you were to say this, you would be correct.
Although I am yet to take the plunge, my wife has an iPhone, which she loves almost as much as me (in fact, I often wonder if she loves it far more. It's hard to be sure, but she does spend an inordinate amount of time playing with it - the iPhone I mean.)
The iPhone has been a huge success for Apple, and you can see why. Its pretty, its powerful, its functional and all round great. The two downsides then are the price (which is high, but probably fair) and fucking iTunes.
Getting stuff on and off of most phones is an easy experience. Pain-free if you will. You have an MP3 on your computer - you plug in mr phone and drag the MP3 over.... Nailed.
For iTunes however, life is not so simple. Every single feature seems to be made to make things hard - what a pain. Half of the time, anything you buy is encrypted to the hilt - making things awkward and meaning that you can't use them anywhere else. Then there is syncing, a process of almost mythical pointlessness.
My Laptop is my laptop and - my phone is my phone. The two are separate things. As such, there are things I want on my phone, that I do not necessarily want on my Laptop. To Apple however, and fucking iTunes - you need to keep a synced copy of everything you have ever bought on your iPhone on your computer - taking up gigabytes of space for something you will never use. Its a puzzle of epic proportion.
No wonder people jailbreak their iPhones, because iTunes can't do the simplest things right!
Getting voice memo's off of an iPhone for instance can be a right chore - when iTunes decides it just doesn't want to sync.
Then there are the endless updates it needs, at around 50mb a time - seemingly when I want to sync anything important.
I hate over-engineering in all of its forms, and iTunes is a quintessential example of this.
Pull your finger out apple, and let people use the technology they have paid good money for!
Rant over.
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