“There is no easy way to say this. iTunes is a dinosaur. It’s broken and has been broken for a number of years,” Jeffrey Mincey writes for Bohemian Boomer. “Based upon Apple’s history with archaic technology, iTunes will not be fixed.”
“iTunes is a music player, a movie player, an internet radio station player, a media shopping mall for music videos, TV shows, movies, and probably a few more items that I haven’t found or figured out how to use. iTunes is a hugely bloated, convoluted mess that nearly everyone who pays attention to such things says is in need of a major fix,” Mincey writes. “Apple may patch up bugs from time to time, and slather on a new feature here and there to keep the lights on, but don’t expect iTunes to be fixed. It won’t.”
“What I expect Apple to do is to remain Apple,” Mincey writes. “One day we’ll be watching a new keynote address and iTunes will be replaced. Out with the old, in with the new.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yes, please, and the sooner, the better!
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