What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
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What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
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Re: What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
#2... 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.
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#4> 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.
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I don’t know. He really floated away into his own sea at the end there. I sort of get his point, just not how he got there, or whether it’s really the case at all.
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#7> 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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#8My 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 phone.
Sheesh.
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#9Yeh I thoroughly hate iTunes. The opening time alone, but the store vs library separation was...
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#10iTunes is dead? Have I missed something?