He believes the company should have discontinued iTunes, its media management service, and rolled out a new Apple Music app. Why does iTunes fail at what it sets out to do?Īrment blames its failures on Apple’s decision to cram too many different features into one piece of software. Apple is the most valuable company in the world and an organization hailed for its good design. Toxic hellstew it may be, a new version of iTunes points at what kinds of technology are allowed to come out of Apple. I agree: It’s why I wrote about how poorly iTunes performs for classical music listeners and, really, for anyone with a large music library.īut it’s worth spending time on iTunes’s specific design problems, which surpass those raised by managing a music library or listening to a specific genre. It is also, in the inimitable judgement of the indie iOS developer Marco Arment, “a toxic hellstew.” Other third-party programs do this, but I have rarely found them to work as well as iTunes for Windows, even with all of its faults.ITunes is the glue of Apple’s software universe: It connects the company’s phones and tablets, desktops and laptops, and online media store and streaming service.
IPhones can now do most of what you need without iTunes, so you don’t need, nor want this, unless you want to manage movies, music, etc. But, I got my playlist updated, so there’s that. I’m banging my head against my desk as I write this. iCloud always wants to install, and you have to authorize your phone every time you plug it in without iTunes for Windows. Anything else can be tricky and require looking up how to use it. You think this might all be worth it, but to be honest, I have always found the interface easy to use, assuming you’re just doing the basics. All I want to do is manage my playlist, but Apple wants to take over your PC. It also comes with at least one startup item and a few processes. After installation, you will have Apple Application Support (32 AND 64 bit), Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, Bonjour (ugh), and one more… oh yeah, iTunes. It wants to take over as your default player. ITunes for Windows is something most Windows geeks who use an iPhone consider a necessary evil. ITunes for Windows lets you connect and manage your Apple devices to your Windows computer.
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