“Steve Jobs zipped around the iTunes music store yesterday. He watched free music videos, played songs, and showed just how frighteningly easy it was to rack up those 79p spends with the click of a mouse,” Patrick Barkham writes for The Guardian. “iTunes is perfect for him. But Jobs is the technological visionary who founded Apple and appears to have broad, mainstream music tastes, encompassing Alicia Keys and Jamie Cullum.”
“I, on the other hand, am a technologically incompetent fan of indie music, blessed with an ageing computer. So when I try to buy and download songs from iTunes, I find it a little bit trickier. My computer’s operating system is too old to support the software. I jump on two further computers before finding one that downloads iTunes easily,” Barkham writes.
Barkham then goes on to explain that when actually using iTunes on a supported computer, “The music store looks fantastic and is easy to use.”
“Buying an iPod or working out how to play it on my computer comes next,” Barkham concludes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Idiotic article. Next, Barkham will tackle the subject of how much easier it is to mow his lawn with a self-propelled gas lawnmower after he tries to pour gasoline into/onto his 1928 push reel lawnmower and then concludes he will need to actually obtain the proper equipment for the job.
not everybody has the latest and greatest in technology. give teh man half a bone for even reviewing iTunes with his ancient computer.
Yeah and I’m still pissed that Apple hasn’t released that version of iLife ’04 for System 7 yet too…
I’m typing now and using iTunes on a five year old Lombard 333mhz running Panther 10.3.4 with 196 megs of RAM here at work. Now I’m not setting any land speed records, but everything is functional and I dare say even smooth. Now if this idiot is having trouble finding a computer to run ITMS on, then he must really be in the dark ages. But I’ll make a better prediction, he is just finding a way to poop Apple Computer. This is such a huge compliment to Apple, because when guys like this nitpic on such small technical issues, that means they really have nothing else to poop, which means Apple is doing a great job at what they do. Over the years, all these misconceptions have slowly gone down the drain.
Canadian iTMS
In Canada you can purchase tunes online in that crappy, proprietary Microsoft format for 73.5� USD. If apple gets 30� USD from the labels in the USA, in Canada they would only get 22� USD. I don’t think they can do it for such a small return. I don’t think iTMS Canada will happen. I guess us Mac users will just have to continue to legally use the P2P sites.
I liked the article.
At least he went out to find a computer iTMS worked on.
To me, it sounds like he did not bother with OD2, napster or any other competing site. He only tried Apple’s site. I think it is a positive article.
The M$ versions require the latest WMP and similar computer specs.
what an idiot, how do you get a job writing crap like that? he and his windows box deserve eachother
OMG – does this chap get PAID to write? I mean, jeez, imagine the horror that he will find when he discovers that he must have a web browser connected to the internet to read his own stupidity?
I mean cripes, my mom wouldn’t have written that, and she doesn’t even own a computer.
SB
Is he the guy on the highway driving that old piece of crap in the fast lane wondering why everyone is honking at him?
With the turn blinker on!
Is being “tech savvy” a requirement for having some common sense about how things work in the world we live in? Makes me wonder which world it is some people are living in.
Stupid is as stupid does?
Btw, I thought it was a honest, sincere article.
> what an idiot, how do you get a job writing crap like that?
> OMG – does this chap get PAID to write?
Yes, he must get paid, and probably decently too. All you have to do is google his name and read his stuff before jerking your knees off.
> Stupid is as stupid does?
‘Nuff said.