I have an IPod, and I quite like the miserable thing. However, ITunes is a pain in the kiester.
Whenever there's an update, I can't get the itunes update without the STUPID QUICK TIME PLAYER being installed. If they just installed the thing, it'd be fine, but they insist on believing that everyone in the world spends ALL of their time in "quick time player." In fact, it's so important, that they put a stupid icon on my desktop, which I can't prevent, and put a stupid icon in my quick launch toolbar! It's so annoying that I regularly don't update ITunes just because of quicktime! I've even contemplated not using my IPod any more.
I'm sure that's the effect Apple wants.
When was the last time that you actually opened a media player? 90% of the time I'm opening a file and the media player is just a side effect! Its certainly not as important as Outlook, which I use all of the time, or IE, which I also use all of the time. I can't even remember the last time that I used Quicktime.
I find it ironic that it's usually MS that gets the bad rap for this type of behavior. Isn't Apple supposed to be the king of usability??
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