Militant said:

Fuck iTunes.

It's a complete piece of shit. Sure it works better on a Mac... for the less than 10% market share of people who have Macs compared the 90%+ market share of Windows and Linux.

I've used every media player program under the sun. Since using WinAmp in 1998, to MusicMatch Jukebox in the early 2000's, to Windows Media Player, to MediaMonkey, to Songbird.

iTunes is the worst out of all of them.

Apple lucked out with the iPod in terms of forcing people to use iTunes.

As for Ping.....the less said the better.

So it's a social network..... that doesn't recognise anything other than iTunes PURCHASES.... that you can only access within the proprietary iTunes program. FAIL

It's like someone built a shitty social network ripped off from Facebook and Twitter, and then tried to add in features from last.fm, and then shoved it inside iTunes.

Garbage.

I can't wait for Google Music to launch this Christmas, fully synchronised with all Android devices, including Google TV as well as all the in-car entertainment systems being built on Android, as well as being fully functional within the browser, with complete wireless sync to any device and streaming your entire library from wherever you are.

Once that hits, iTunes can suck it.

Pair it with a whole bunch of dedicated media players from the likes of Sony, Samsung, LG, all running Android, and Apple are done for.

Android has wiped the floor with Apple in smartphones in less than 2 years. Next up - Google TV, Android tablets, and Android MP3 players/entertainment systems.

It's just like the late 80's and early 90's Microsoft VS Apple war. And the outcome will be EXACTLY the same - Apple will go from having majority market share to having a minimal piece of the whole pie, due to their insistence on policed, closed, proprietary hardware and software.

For those of you who don't follow the tech industry, just remember that I told you about Google Music right now, and let's see where we're at by the end of 2011.

I agree with all of this except u left out 1 thing. Apple makes a quality product that last a LONG time.

From the Telegraph newspaper - "Ping: Why all the fuss? No-one I know even uses iTunes any more"

http://www.telegraph.co.u...-more.html

Militant said:

From the Telegraph newspaper - "Ping: Why all the fuss? No-one I know even uses iTunes any more"

http://www.telegraph.co.u...-more.html

mmm, yes, I suppose. but one thing with everyone pointing out that they use spotify and last.fm and what-not....

what if you want to synch your iPod/iPad/iPhone with what you're listening to?

if someone can point me to a program that's better than iTunes for that, please tell me. I know there are other programs you can buy to do it, or even free programs with plug-ins. but none of them i've used work better than iTunes for the one thing I actually use iTunes for, which is to synch my library to my iPod.

There, honestly, isn't any thing better. There ARE a lot of alternatives but despite all the complaining about iTunes, no one has managed to best it yet in the area of syncing, particularly when you look beyond music.

Mark/Space creates some semi decent syncing tools, for Win and Mac, for a lot of devices including the iPod/iPhone but there are caveats to using them.

http://www.markspace.com/

I use their software for my Palm Pre but I *really* miss using iTunes for syncing.

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Another article notes that a recent survey (not especially scientific but...) indicates while Antennagate may have given a few pause on the iPhone 4, the fact that it is not on Verizon (and Sprint, etc...) has kept a whopping 60% of respondents from purchasing one. Supposedly 31% of those polled were already on AT&T which suggests a huge chunk of the other 69% are potential customers once it moves to other networks.

http://www.crn.com/news/client-devices/227400008/at-t-not-antenna-is-biggest-iphone-turn-off-study.htm

Also, an interesting note that T-mobile may get the iPhone 3Gs. I'd not really thought about Apple moving older generations to other networks.