Quit trying to sell me stuff
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m starting to get pissed off at Apple.
Is it just me, or have the last 5+ updates on iTunes been concentrating primarily on the iTunes Store?
I pay money to get the computer and the operating system, and I pay money to get the iPod. Why do I have to be constantly bombarded with hints about buying music and movies off the iTunes Store?
Why would anyone ever want to pay money for something they’d use to buy stuff?
I always find people treating others like a demographic with a budget annoying. Blatantly being treated as a marketing target through something I have payed for, I find downright offensive and wish it was illegal.
Yes. Magazines do that and TV Channels do it and the radio as well. That’s why I usually don’t read magazines, I hardly ever watch TV and never listened to the radio my entire life. That’s why I buy CDs and DVDs and books, although advertising often slips in there. And that’s direct advertising, to keep things clear.
Imagine if every time you turned on your stereo, some guy told you to go buy CDs from his store…
The internet is pretty sad in that aspect, too. The standard way to make money is by advertising. Get enough clicks, then sell your page by the pixel to advertisers. How noble and, most importantly, how socially beneficial.
But I’m not that fussed with Google, because at least Google offers an invaluable service for free. I find AdSense pretty lame and totally ignore it (eBay - great deals on Lisp anyone?) but I’m not really that mad at them, because if they made me pay one penny every time they let me use their service, I’d be broke and in jail having to sell cigarettes to make pennies to use on Google the one hour of internet access a week inmates probably get…
Back to iTunes, I probably wouldn’t be as furious if iTunes 7.0.0 worked properly. One thing Apple has got us spoiled with is providing us with software that just works. And now I’ve come to expect this and no less from them. And let me tell you, iTunes 7.0.1 is still pretty flaky on my iBook G4.
Maybe it’s that software which I bought, the one that sells me stuff, eating up my CPU…
October 5th, 2006 at 9:12 am
“Why would anyone ever want to pay money for something they’d use to buy stuff?”
uh, iTunes is free?
October 5th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
itunes isn’t very good for many reasons. I just don’t like some of the more draconian measures it implements on my ipod. I was recommended anapod explorer. It was like $25 but its totally worth it in my opinion. I’m not some plant either. I mean check it out if you want but my point is there are many alternatives to iTunes that are great.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
apple gives away itunes for free… and guess what the reason is ? you’ve already got a step into their store.. you’re literally one click away from buying stuff…
that’s just business …
October 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
you can disable almost every hint of the itunes music store.
check the “parental controls” panel in the preferences to disable the store from the sources list. you can disable links to the itunes store for artist and album names, etc.
itunes is still pretty usable without the store. and it’s search and navigation features are still unmatched, at least by the available competition on os x.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Apart from that Apple is so f*** slow.. with 512 MB of ram it crawls.. (Mac Mini) And i dont believe i would ever say this but All the browsers i use Camino, Safari esp. Safari CRASHES LIKE HELL…..(and that rainbow colored rotator thing windows eqivalent of sand timer shows up all the f*** time) all i use it for is surfing a few pages.. e.g. digg and the likes .. and the crash rate is on average DAILY .. give or take a few days .. Man IE (and windows as a whole) is much better experience.. made a big mistake switching over to this rotten product ..!!! ipod is nice though !!! :o)
October 5th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Why would anyone want to buy anything Apple makes?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Yea well, iTunes 7 seems to work fine on my MacBook, but not that fine on my trusty PowerMac G4 desktop beast. I mean, who doesn’t expect that from any company? Braking news, Apple wants to sell more stuff and possibly a new computer to you! Who ‘d have thought. Point is, SOMEONE is going to end up with your money, mates, it’s called capitalism.