Friday, February 02, 2007
iTunes and Stuff
Okay, I'm just a little miffed at Apple, Inc. I think they build very nice equipment, though as a personal aside, I do not think they are as godlike as they would like people to believe. Other companies know how to build good stuff too.
However, that aside, my issue with Apple is over QuickTime. Why the heck can't I simply download the QuickTime player like I used to? No, now they make me download the stupid iTunes application which bundled with QuickTime weighs in at some 36 megs. When I install it, it blows up to around 75 megs. What's up with that? I don't have an iPod, so I really don't need iTunes. And I'm certainly not going to bow to their music dictatorship. They need to think about the customers a little bit more before I go out and spend my hard-earned money on songs that I can't possibly replace. Blasted digital rights crap.
Anyway, so what I really want is just a lightweight QuickTime player for online QuickTime content. I don't need a fancy (and impossibly slow) music player gumming up my system. I just don't need it. iTunes may work great on Macs, but as far as I've seen, it sucks on Windows boxes (which, by the way are infinitely more customizable than a Mac.)
Now, you may ask why I get all up in arms about the amount of hard disk space a certain application takes. Sure, I have a multi-gigabyte hard drive, but I like to not have gi-normous applications to do things like play music. If an application is going to be a heavyweight, it needs to act the part, such as a Web development platform, or a graphics development system, not a media player.
Anyhow, enough of my ranting. It's time to go to bed.
So let it be written; so let it be done.
However, that aside, my issue with Apple is over QuickTime. Why the heck can't I simply download the QuickTime player like I used to? No, now they make me download the stupid iTunes application which bundled with QuickTime weighs in at some 36 megs. When I install it, it blows up to around 75 megs. What's up with that? I don't have an iPod, so I really don't need iTunes. And I'm certainly not going to bow to their music dictatorship. They need to think about the customers a little bit more before I go out and spend my hard-earned money on songs that I can't possibly replace. Blasted digital rights crap.
Anyway, so what I really want is just a lightweight QuickTime player for online QuickTime content. I don't need a fancy (and impossibly slow) music player gumming up my system. I just don't need it. iTunes may work great on Macs, but as far as I've seen, it sucks on Windows boxes (which, by the way are infinitely more customizable than a Mac.)
Now, you may ask why I get all up in arms about the amount of hard disk space a certain application takes. Sure, I have a multi-gigabyte hard drive, but I like to not have gi-normous applications to do things like play music. If an application is going to be a heavyweight, it needs to act the part, such as a Web development platform, or a graphics development system, not a media player.
Anyhow, enough of my ranting. It's time to go to bed.
So let it be written; so let it be done.
Labels: applications, iTunes, QuickTime, Windows
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