by Linwood » Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:20 am
I am in the process of switching from itunes now. It's a collection of issues over the years, but mostly comes down to a couple of things: (1) Apple's "we know best" changes over the years forced a fair amount of work (or at least research) on my when all i wanted was to use it as a librarian, whether from UI changes, folder structural changes, or how I interacted with Apple's web and authentication (which frankly should have been zero), and (2) I wanted something that was better at organization of physical files, movement of them, format conversion, etc.
Also, after I made the (still a bit tentative) decision, I found MM5 will do google play music sync, or at least some day, which is really useful.
With respect to (1) I realize software has to change (indeed if it is not, it is dead, and that's reason to change also). But so many of apple's changes were disruptive without seeming to bring any real value. Change should be purposeful, not just because some marketing guy decided he didn't like the UI looks.
I am in the process of switching from itunes now. It's a collection of issues over the years, but mostly comes down to a couple of things: (1) Apple's "we know best" changes over the years forced a fair amount of work (or at least research) on my when all i wanted was to use it as a librarian, whether from UI changes, folder structural changes, or how I interacted with Apple's web and authentication (which frankly should have been zero), and (2) I wanted something that was better at organization of physical files, movement of them, format conversion, etc.
Also, after I made the (still a bit tentative) decision, I found MM5 will do google play music sync, or at least some day, which is really useful.
With respect to (1) I realize software has to change (indeed if it is not, it is dead, and that's reason to change also). But so many of apple's changes were disruptive without seeming to bring any real value. Change should be purposeful, not just because some marketing guy decided he didn't like the UI looks.
