It just goes to show you how much people love Apple. Would anyone ever post an article about SanDisk's five worst products, or Toshiba's five worst products? We complain because we love, so stop yer whinin' fanboys. Wired compiled an entertaining list from the Apple rogue's gallery. I spent a few minutes trying to think of my own list of crummy Apple products, and I realized that they were mostly things that I hated not because they weren't good, but because they didn't live up to the hype, or my high expectations, or they were just too ahead of the curve. The QuickTake, mentioned by Wired, is a great example of that. Too early.
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Member since:2008-07-15
The Windows version does, indeed, suck. My experience is the same, iTunes is actually quite nice on OS X even if it does take up more memory than is perhaps strictly necessary, but on Windows... it's a bloated, slow memory hog that feels like it's about to crash at any moment. Come to think of it, all of Apple's Windows software is that way. Maybe they hope people will switch to Macs instead, or else don't think spending developer resources on the Windows versions is very important. Either way, it is a rather strange decision on their part.
Member since:2006-01-12
I hate iTunes!
It's really one of the worst applications I have ever used. It's so slow and amazingly even more slower when iPod is connected. It can't auto add files to library, it can't download cover art without registering, I can't click right and just sync files I have to drag and drop. And saddest part, this shitty program ruins one of the best portable music player I ever had. But it's not Apples fault, I mean I choose this path since otherway would be to suffer dreadful Creative players. I rather suffer that small time of first importing new music to iTunes and then syncing than having to use crappy music player all time.
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2005-07-11
I love iTunes!
I would like it to be a tad faster to launch, but I can live with waiting 2 seconds (that's on a 3yo iMac).
I find it easy to use, navigate etc... Not sure what the problem is. Maybe the Windows version sux, maybe that's it...
Oh, I was a SoundJam fan back in the day, so I haven't just started using this thing.
I would like to see iPhoto run up faster and work smoother though, and Exposé mode for Safari needs some work too, I've had Safari die quite a few times there (latest version).
I love the iPhone, but they may have not bothered with the camera, I hope they update that, if I don't have a camera on me, and want to take a photo, I still think twice before using the iPhone (I have the 3G, not the 3GS, so maybe it's improved a little, but from what I hear, it hasn't).
Not sure how iTunes made the list.
Oh, the QuickTake wasn't a bad product as such (well, OK, it was), but it was just ahead of it's time, needed technology to catch up (a lot) - lol. I don't think it should have been on the list.
The Pippin defn. should have. It was a terrible product. Kind of Apples way to try and sell a lot crap (even for it's day) h/w that it couldn't sell otherwise. Great idea, very very very poorly executed. It was basically an LC from memory...
Can we include products that didn't quite make it like Copland. Again, a great idea, but it would have been poorly executed, though I loved the idea of OpenDoc!!!