{"id":129,"date":"2005-12-23T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2005\/12\/23\/winer-unloads-on-itunes\/"},"modified":"2005-12-23T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:01:42","slug":"winer-unloads-on-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/12\/23\/winer-unloads-on-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winer unloads on iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s kind of a guilty pleasure, but I can’t help it — I love reading Dave Winer<\/a> when he gets on a rant (except maybe when it involves Adam Curry and the origins of podcasting). His latest is on iTunes<\/a>, and having used it before with both Windows and Mac, I have to agree. Dave’s rant was apparently sparked by this post by Rex Hammock<\/a> on his blog.<\/p>\n

“The user interface on iTunes is awful. It’s the worst piece of crap I’ve ever used. People would tell me when I was a Windows user that it was because the Windows version of iTunes is crap but the Mac version is easy. Well, both programs are head-up-butt impossible to figure out. The user model makes no sense. When is something on the iPod? How many copies of the music do I have? Where the fcuk are they? How do you delete something? Is it really gone? Why does it wipe out the contents of the iPod when I don’t say it’s okay to? What did I do wrong? I swear, I have no idea, and I’m a professional software designer.<\/i> What about the poor schnook who is just a user?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rob Hyndman says he has dumped iTunes as well, mostly because it’s a pain to use in a networked environment<\/a> (memo to Apple: this is a big problem, and likely to get bigger). And David Berlind at ZDNet has some thoughts on the DRM issue<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

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It’s kind of a guilty pleasure, but I can’t help it — I love reading Dave Winer when he gets on a rant (except maybe when it involves Adam Curry and the origins of podcasting). His latest is on iTunes, and having used it before with both Windows and Mac, I have to agree. Dave’s … <\/p>\n

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