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I said last month, the wife and I have finally gotten our first mp3
players. So far, the verdict is that I
mostly like the ipod, but I absolutely hate
the itunes software that manages songs on my computer.
It’s more than a little ironic that the
software reminds me of that stupid talking paper clip thing that
Apple’s
arch-nemesis built into Office. No, I do
not want you to think for me.
No, I do not
want you to organize my songs the way you want to organize them. (And no, I don’t want to go to your damn web
site and buy songs. Leave me alone!) Apple
wants you to think it’s simple. (What do
you expect from a bunch of people who think a mouse should have only
one
button?) Use our software, buy songs
from our site, rip songs in our format.
Do as we tell you and you will be happy.
Kind of funny for the company that made its mark with that
1984 Big
Brother anti-conformity ad; after ten minutes with itunes, I’m ready to
take
that sledge hammer to my computer. I do
like the fact that the software pulls in the titles of the songs and
other tag
information automatically; however, I always end up tweaking them,
either
because the original tagging has some kind of mistake or inconsistency
or
because I just want the song file to follow my own damn naming
convention. Apple
and Microsoft both seem to make a lot of bad assumptions in an effort
to dumb
down their products to give them the widest mass appeal. Who was
it that said make things as simple as
possible but no simpler? Or, maybe more
appropriately, build something simple enough for an idiot to use and
only an
idiot will use it. I’m beginning to
understand why so many people have switched to linux. |