Staggering boldness in consumerunfriendliness
I have had my I-Pod now for several years and with the Pod itself I am very much satisfied. With the exception of some occasional trouble with the navigation due to sensitivity issues of the physical surface, it is a great high-quality-product. The energy lasts and despite me dropping it more than a few times, no harm done whatsoever. The navigation works well, too.
However, I am increasingly displeased with I-tunes up to a point where I felt - without wanting to get dramatic - just dumped on, on conscious purpose.
The strategy of Apple is without a doubt to not only to lure but force people to organize their whole music in the Apple environment. Of course this starts with the fact that one has to use I-Tunes to get music on ones Pod. Which can be incredibly frustrating. In the new video explaining the new I-tunes it is talked about attractive and easy ways to organize music. Comfortably switching between organizing music by genre or artist, drag-and-drop etc.. But alternative means of music organizing are merely supported by the existence of customizable play lists - and that is it. Which rules out the many advantages a simple folder structure to organize music can have, especially if one has large quantities of music. A structure way more flexible and at the same time not a wee bit more difficult. A structure where things like "control" and "shift" and "drawing windows" offer useful tools I-Tunes lacks. Moreover, I-Tunes is incredibly resource-hungry when compared to a simple folder-structure or alternative music organizing programs.
Those are all things I was bothered by, but not to the point of acute frustration. One can adapt to the I-tunes environment for the purpose of getting music on ones Pod.
What breaks the camels back is the untransferability of playlists from say Winamp. Given that this is hardly a biggy to implement, the only logical conclusion is that consumer preference is purposefully taken a dump on in a most crass manner. Many people have extensive Winamp play lists, fine-tuned in many hours. And who prefers folder structures and the simple Winamp to I-tunes may very much want to keep organizing his or her music there. I can not imagine that Apple isn't aware of this. All I can conclude is that Apple as said takes a dumb on such interests for the sake of enforcing its own environment in as much totality as possible.
And this is the staggering boldness in consumerunfriendliness I am talking about. There are many Apple-haters out there, but I found their extreme opposition always rather odd. Now, I am starting to understand them. In deed, if Apple keeps this policy of denying exterior playlists to be used, I will have to be one of them.
Relying on my I-Pod in many ways, you surely can imagine how angry this all makes me and for now I am sorry for any penny I have given to the company.
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) products. Those aspects go hand in hand, and it seems to work out well for Apple.
!). So Winamp hardly seems to be at fault in this case. Though one needs to keep in mind that the winamp playlist needs to be saved on another drive than where the music is at - otherwise winamp doesn't save the drive and one would have to edit it in (which makes sense though because without drives and given the same folder structure playlists can be transferred between different computers without bother).
