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My iTunes Library is 15 years old, contains 11,496 songs, 871 music videos, 2,418 television episodes, and 67 movies. Only now it's split up to two different apps, once of which is laughably unfinished but otherwise continues to do the job. Meanwhile, after 5 1/2 years and $578, I cancelled my Netflix subscription and have no intention to ever start it up again. Dead, indeed.
... iTunes became a bucket of too many features, so apple split it up into multiple applications. Apple music is pretty much exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music related features. It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names.
> Apple music is pretty much exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music related features. Hmm, not really. I took a brief look at the UI during the Catalina beta and concluded that I wanted nothing to do with it. I have spent years learning how to use iTunes well. I'm not about to throw away that investment of time and energy on a new, untested app with a different UI. I'll stick with iTunes to manag…
Fortunately, that disappearance was only temporary. It returned in 10.15.2.
Select "Songs" in the left sidebar, and a "Column Browser" submenu will be added to the View menu. Turn it on (⌘B), and you get a nice, no-nonsense, high information density view of your collection, letting you quickly filter by genre, artist, and album. Right click on a column heading and you can add columns for composer and grouping or remove columns.
> Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now just search for it from the top bar. Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
> Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now just search for it from the top bar. Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
Didn't expect the article to mention this, but this is absolutely true for me. I only know the locations of some apps, and I search for the rest.
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iCloud seems to do a fine job backing up photos and videos. When I get a new iPhone, I don't even take a manual backup -- I just login to iCloud and wait for everything to sync. iCloud restore populates all my apps, settings, photos, videos, etc. Apart from having to setup FaceID and re-enter passwords, it's like nothing changed.
But I can backup to my computer for free... I would have to pay $9.99 a month for 2TBs of iCloud storage....
> Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now just search for it from the top bar. Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
I see it more than organizing more than a certain number of things is a lost cause, so search is a better solution than organization. Yahoo used to be hierarchically organized. Then good search (blame Altavista, I guess) came along. When Window 7 added search to the Start button that would search for installed apps, I never needed to drill into the Start Menu again.
It used to be that I found apps by typing in a few letters. Lately, however, I’m more likely to find an app by pulling down the search mode on my iPad and then tapping one of the suggested apps.
That shows to me that there are definitely better ways to organize and present apps to users that haven’t been tried enough.
“(A note for older readers: More time separates us today from the debut of the first iPod than separated the first iPod from the debut of the first Macintosh computer.)“ Wow.
iTunes was a stop-gap when Apple didn't want to have an app store at any cost for the iPhone when it first came out.
... iTunes became a bucket of too many features, so apple split it up into multiple applications. Apple music is pretty much exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music related features. It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names.
Probably just became to unweildy for the developers and they split it out. I can't imagine successfully staffing a giant monolithic application. I think it would be hard to get job satisfaction working on a tiny piece of an app with decades of cruft. Most apps like this are several orders of magnitude larger than say, the linux kernel.
But I mean that's not true. I suspect the reason it was such a behemoth was because Apple wanted it to be the gateway and gatekeeper to both acquiring media and transferring it to the device.
Like Spotify manages to do quite well for itself without being the monstrosity that iTunes became. I'd guess that the foundation of Apple's garden walls is also the source of their technical debt.
My take on the author's take is that by point 10, he's realized what a muddled and silly thing this is. > So what really failed, maybe, wasn’t iTunes at all… At which point whatever substance he's abused to get that far really kicks in for his final point. > In 1940, the German critic Walter Benjamin wrote about an angel in a Paul Klee painting. […] It is now clear, 80 years later, that the angel is looking at his ph…
Walter Benjamin is the original inspiration for the postmodernists. His writing is nonsensically opaque. If his name appears in an article, it's a good sign that the article is about to go off the rails.
In fact... someone on HN in 2014 claimed that Benjamin was a "postmodernist" too, and they were quickly shut down on that claim[1].