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RE: Re: Just bought an iPod Touch...



I agree - iTunes is the biggest pile of poo in the history of
software!!!

...especially with a lot of tracks in the music library - incredibly slow
to do anything.

Baaahhh!

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 12 July 2009 17:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Just bought an iPod Touch...
>
> I'd forgotten just how much I *REALLY* hate iTunes...
>
> Where's the button that just makes it do what it's told and simply
move
> music and video files to the device for me to play later? Why does it
> have
> to try to catalogue and standardise everything into libraries? At
least
> I
> can stop Windows Media Player doing that!
>
> I'm just waiting for the day when Windows Media Player, Media Centre
> and
> iTunes get themselves into a fight to the death as each one moves and
> manipulates each others media slightly causing the next one to jump in
> and
> try to manipulate it back - that'll be a fight to the bitter end that
> will
> be worth buying hardware for!
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Dave McLaughlin
> > Sent: 12 July 2009 05:04
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Just bought an iPod Touch...
> >
> > Some do. My old HP Ipaq was free for revisions and bug fixes but
when
> > they
> > offered an upgrade to the latest OS, ie, a major revision change,
> they
> > charged 30 quid for it. I guess the same for Apple, making a
major
> jump
> > is
> > charged. I have software here that costs $1500 each year to keep
in
> > maintenance so I think a few quid is a reasonable price to pay to
get
> > the
> > latest and greatest!!  :o)  (PS.. You could be an honorary
Scotsman
> now
> > Phil)
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of
> > Paul Bendall
> > Sent: 12 July 2009 10:49
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Just bought an iPod Touch...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Why you have to pay for a firmware upgarde is beyond me, but this
is
> > Apple.
> > Their reason is some rubbish about Sarbanes-Oxley revenue policy,
> > except no
> > other company charges for updates.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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