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I would say Last.fm is closer to the centre of Apple's crosshairs
Also, Rdio
Huge gaps in the catalogue.
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#92Ping, only accessible from within iTunes? Not a web interface at all? That is surprising to me. I can't participate unless I have an iPhone/iPod Touch/computer with my iTunes installed.
Also, he mentioned showing what my friends have purchased. I am more interested in what they are playing right now or are playing overall, regardless of where it came from. iTunes and iPods have been successful because it isn't restricted to only content purchased in the iTunes store, but now they are focusing hard on the iTunes store content only?
I can't see that this is going to be as successful as if they had a more open mind about it. What about the MP3s I buy from Amazon or CDs (or whatever) and load on my iTunes? Only tracking what comes from the iTunes store is like navel gazing. I think they miss the big picture that way.
Or maybe I am just old fashioned. :)
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#93Facebook must be crapping themselves a little - games, music, video and all the social aspects tied into a piece of software that's deeply integrated into a ton of people's lives.
I check Facebook dozens of times per day. I barely ever open iTunes except when it decided to play a song I don't like.
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#94Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.
What one simple thing is iTunes supposed to do? From early on it's been a multi-function program. It would be very difficult to pick out a small subset of features to point at as the core functionality of iTunes since from the early days it's been a music player, CD ripper, store, device manager, etc. Probably the last major new category of functionality added before Ping (which arguably is just an extension of the s…
Music player + CD Ripper can be the simple thing it's supposed to do. Move the music and app store into a separate app. Move the device manager into a separate app. Move the social networking into the cloud.
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#95Is this available in all countries?
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#96Can I please have an application that just does the one simple thing it's supposed to? I feel like soon both iTunes and GMail are going to try to order my groceries for me.
Me and a friend have been trying to write a small app that only manages and plays music. Sadly, CoreAudio is proving to be a pain in the butt :(
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It's kind of amusing how bad iTunes is on Windows, all while Apple talks about how writing for a meta-platform produces lower quality software. It doesn't even look good, IMO, at least not compared to running natively on OSX.
I think it proves their point pretty well. Cross-platform-kits equal sub-par experiences almost every time.
Well, iTunes isn't really built for a cross-platform kit, it is primarily built for OSX with a compatibility layer for Windows where needed (I think)... at least the shortcomings only really show up under Windows, under OSX it's a big app but generally runs well (speaking for myself here).
But, my point is that you'd think a company that knows how much ported/meta-platform apps suck would try to avoid it by making iTunes for Windows (along with QuickTime and Safari) look and feel less like OSX apps wedged into Windows and more like "good Windows citizens".
Granted, iTunes for Windows is pretty old, and it's possible Apple's struggles with it contributed to the decision to ban 3rd party toolkits from iOS.
(Or Apple just doesn't give a shit about Windows and is annoyed they have to cater to it at all, which is why all their Windows software kinda sucks.)
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It really does look a lot more like Facebook than MySpace. You basically have a Facebook wall of all the people you follow, not some kind of customized site you can design from scratch, like the mess that was MySpace.
MySpace was created for and, early on, largely marketed to bands who wanted a simple page with a place to feature music. It only caught on with the public as a secondary. Now, bands are pretty much the only people who still use the platform at all.
Where did you learn that MySpace was created for bands? Wikipedia states that they just explicitly copied the most popular features of friendster.