Apple, think different...

drragostea

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about how you should choose your next player.
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Apple, apparently has a very difficult time answering their customers questions when they doubt Apple's quality of work. Reminds of me of Global class, during the French Revolution when dictators would send victims to the guillotine when they merely question the authority of the higher ups. Except, the bigger guys just ignore you and put you in the cold these days.

When the customer goes off topic questioning Apple's support besides the FAQs that constantly nag you with, assuming it is an adequate response besides stating the obvious, FAQs. That have been updated frequently with some grammar changes.

When I was fed up with their tech support email, I told them I did not like the way they treated me like I was a customer who does not know what Operating System they were running.

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Frankly, the iTunes and Quicktime software is a bit overrated. It is best suited for hardcore encoders and geeks who enjoys having HD libraries.
 
Software is only part of the equation. I think one of biggest reasons why the iPod is the most popular music device in the world is the simplicity of the hardware.

Of course, that's not to say I don't agree with your thoughts on iTunes and Quicktime. Bloated, slow (at least on Windows) and missing features that other free alternatives have. Personally I use foobar2000 and have been using it for about a year now and haven't been missing iTunes one bit. Its biggest selling point (although of course, it's free) is its customisability. You can easily customise the player to suit your own needs. For example, I prefer to browse my music collection by folder structure rather than by artist/album; you can easily do either in foobar2000, but in iTunes you cannot. The community also develops plugins to add further functionality to this already capable music player - I have an iPod classic 5th generation and it syncs my music and videos perfectly fine with foobar2000 (w/ the iPod support plugin).

It is best suited for hardcore encoders and geeks who enjoys having HD libraries.
Isn't the opposite true? I find iTunes is lacking of many useful features such as FLAC playback, library watching (although the latest iTunes (v9) has kind of work around) and built in encoding to formats other than propriety Apple ones. Heh, I suppose I am a "hardcore encoder geek". :spider:
 
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