Can I turn off 1-click in iTunes 9?

I guess we will just have to wait for iTunes 9.1...hopefully

Sal1956 wrote:
I guess we will just have to wait for iTunes 9.1...hopefully

Or 9.01? Which is out now, and the only thing that's changed is the wording on the warning.

Still broken as far as I'm concerned, and no more purchases in the iTunes store from me until it's fixed.

As others have mentioned, and I've had enough rants about this myself, the current system is counter-intuitive to the more usual online shopping experience.

Good luck to Apple if they want to move the goal posts, but they won't be getting my money - nor that of a few others I know personally who also agree it's now broken - for the foreseeable future.

Even engineers I've had email conversations agree with me. Hey-ho.

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the current system is counter-intuitive to the more usual online shopping experience.

To yours perhaps, but not everyone's.

Matt

Matthew Morgan wrote:
To yours perhaps, but not everyone's.

Enlighten me, then. How many online stores work the same way? How many online stores have NO shopping cart?

I'm not entirely sure why you're stating the obvious; as if anyone even needed to say what you've said.

It is, however, my professional opinion, and that of many others.

Enlighten me, then. How many online stores work the same way? How many online stores have NO shopping cart?

I'm not talking about other online stores, just the iTunes store in particular.

Shopping Cart and Checkout are metaphors from the brick and mortar world that really just add extra steps to the purchasing process.

Matt

Just found this post after being taken completely by surprise that hitting a "buy" button bought the file immediately instead of adding it to my cart like it did prior to iTunes 9. I had previously set up iTunes very specifically to use the cart because I like to review purchases before making them final. How dare Apple switch my setting without even warning me!

This is bad usability, pure and simple — if you are going to make a change like this, you have to warn users and make it VERY clear to them that you have changed the mode by which they are purchasing, especially since people using the shopping cart had to manually go in and set it that way which shows a direct desire for that behavior. A wishlist is not the same as a shopping cart and by trying to replace one with the other -- Apple is mixing a metaphor that has been clearly established on the web (not to mention that makes perfect sense).

This is sneaky and sleazy. I wonder how much money Apple has made off of unintentional purchases since the launch of iTunes 9. Gross!

How dare Apple switch my setting without even warning me!

You should have received a warning to re-authenticate before the final sale was made.

This is sneaky and sleazy. I wonder how much money Apple has made off of unintentional purchases since the launch of iTunes 9. Gross!

I think Apple is just trying to streamline the process of buying.

If you've unintentionally purchased something because of this change, I'd contact the store. I'll bet they'll give you a credit.

Matt

Matt, you keep railing on and on about streamlining and convenience.

And you and others keep railing on and on about the shopping cart.

Please understand, my comments are meant to be observational. I'm not making a judgment against having a shopping cart option. Not at all.

I just notice these things and figure they are being doing with some thought and reason behind it. Maybe a poor thought, but a thought nonetheless.

Traditional check-out POS is disappearing from the brick and mortar stores as well in favor of handheld, right where you stand purchasing. Kind of the physical version of one-click.

I sure the shopping cart will come back if users demand it. Or folks may simply adapt or abandon the store entirely. Who knows?

Matt

I'm definitely annoyed with this feature. I've been warned numerous times to reauthorize my computer so when I saw that I didn't think anything of it. Especially as someone who's had computer issues in the past and in the process of multiple reformats had to reauthorize the computer.

this is frustrating and annoying and I hope it's changed. I don't buy much from iTunes, but I am surely not browsing on the off chance that I click something mistakenly.

Bad business practice.

I don't think you come across as a whiney brat at all. I think eliminating the shopping cart is one of the dumbest things Apple has done with iTunes. And the highhanded way they did it is what is so incredibly infuriating. Do you see any mention of it in the "what's new in iTunes 9" marketing hype. Nope. "Shopping cart" can still be found in the help files index but of course the material is now completely useless. I found a help screen somewhere that indicated the new "wish list" was in the upper right hand corner of the store homepage, just under "QuickLinks". Not so! It's buried way down at the bottom of the page in the middle of a bunch of other links. Very inconvenient and not particularly intuitive. This kind of move is something I would expect out of Microsoft, not Apple. But the more time I spend on the iTunes and related sites the more I see them morphing into not much more than very slick marketing sites for Apple products - very disappointing Steve!

You're right Matt. They didn't start at number 1 and iTunes is a fabulous site. But it's run like a benign dictatorship and lately Apple seems more concerned with selling more slick new versions of a multitude of products with dubious new features. Do I want a video camera in my nano....? No - I want a music player. But now an FM receiver in a nano, that makes sense. Most MP3 players have had them for years. I'm getting really sick and tired of Apple's "Apple knows best" smug, self satisfied attitude, I really am.

"Add to wish list" saved me a ton of money keeping my kids from always buying stuff on iTunes. Please bring it back or at least some means of screening what my kids are clicking on the site. Obviously an oversight by Apple. Bring it back, NOW!!!!!!!!!

"Add to wish list" saved me a ton of money keeping my kids from always buying stuff on iTunes. Please bring it back

The wish list is still there.

Matt

Not even close to the same thing it once was. It used to be a global setting. Now its a drop down.