No Shopping Cart but HIDDEN Wish List instead (really dumb)

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No Shopping Cart but HIDDEN Wish List instead (really dumb)

Nothing like making it more difficult to purchase songs you are almost ready to purchase.
The 'Shopping Cart' was MUCH more user friendly than the new Wish List which you first have to go to the iTunes Store and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where it is virtually hidden so as to access songs you have indicated you will want to purchase in the near future.

Yeah Apple... way to go.

Make it harder to find and purchase songs with your new improved upgrade.

There wasn't even a note in the online iTunes Help indicating as to where the Shopping Cart items had gone.

Yeah Apple... quite the improvement.

G5 Tower, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2 GB RAM; Apple Bluetooth keyboard

Posted on Sep 26, 2009 1:16 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 26, 2009 1:32 PM in response to RonL

No suggested music based on music already added in the Wish List either. 😟

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roaminggnome

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Sep 26, 2009 1:33 PM in response to RonL

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Answer 3

Sep 27, 2009 1:40 AM in response to RonL

RonL wrote:
go to the iTunes Store and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where it is virtually hidden

It's also hidden at the top - you don't have to scroll down to the bottom 😉

If you are logged in to your account then there is a disclosure triangle (which only appears when you hover to the right of your login id) that lists:
Account
Redeem
Wish List
Sign Out

The easiest way to get to it (and, I assume, the way Apple intended for it to work) is on the home page:
!http://idisk.me.com/colinrobinson-Public/Complete my Album.tiff"!

However, it appears from threads on this board, that some people do not get that view when they log in.

Regards,
COlin R.

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Sep 27, 2009 8:39 AM in response to RonL

Not only was this a terrible idea, but I get an error or +connection time out+ 3 out of 4 times I try to access my wish list to purchase music. I cannot believe that the record companies and artists would stand for this. This seems like a really poor marketing idea to get people to buy songs at the spur of the moment rather than let people EASILY assemble items to ponder for the future. Why Apple feels these "tweaks" are necessary is really beyond me.

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RonL Author

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Sep 27, 2009 9:24 AM in response to Colin Robinson

I don't get the login page you describe, but the hidden delta does appear after it is scrubbed over.

All of hidden (or hard to find) access points for the list of music one is about to purchase is an incredibly dumb idea.

Design and marketing demands that form follows function and not the other way around.

I have been using Macs for well over a decade and use them professionally (re. my profile). IAW I love Macs but the person(s) that made this decision should at the very least have a letter put in their file.

Making something so 'clean' that one can not find its feature(s), etc. is a VERY bad idea and a terrible marketing technique.

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Sep 27, 2009 11:08 AM in response to Colin Robinson

However, it appears from threads on this board, that some people do not get that view when they log in.

You're right. It does not consistently appear.

Matt

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RonL Author

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Sep 27, 2009 1:30 PM in response to Matthew Morgan

The real irony is that the music which a potential customer is about to purchase now takes more steps to get to (if they can find it at all... since one may think it is lost)... and now around one hundred album covers are displayed on each page in the iTunes Store that I have no interest.

The downloading/displaying of so many album covers also slows down the page loading (and I am on a very fast cable connection). Consequently it is frustating when I click on a link, and if the entire page has not loaded, to often have to wait until it does for the link to work.

There needs to be a preference to eliminate showing so many album covers for genres that one is not interested.

Bottom line... make it easy to find what we want to purchase... not the things we do not.

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Sep 27, 2009 3:01 PM in response to RonL

I'm not a fan of this Wish List business either. I seem to have to refresh my wish list (by returning to the home page and selecting wish list again) in order to remove more than one song from it.

CG

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Sep 28, 2009 3:26 PM in response to CasperGemini

I also have to leave the wishlist screen and come back if I want to play more than one preview or delete more than one song off my wishlist. So annoying! I've written a scathing review to Apple Feedback - hopefully they can bring the shopping cart back or ease the functionality of this new iTunes.

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RonL Author

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Sep 28, 2009 4:45 PM in response to RonL

Even the sorting is whacked.

Instead of sorting your entire list... it sorts per page! So you can end up with one artist separated over several pages even when highlighting 'artist,' as well as 'name.' There is no combination that will list all of the songs by one artist together if you have added them at various times... at least no combination that I have found.

The same happens when sorting via the other columns as well... it sorts PER page rather than by the entire list.

This never occurred with the Shopping Cart.

Genius references are also gone in the Wish List though they were very useful in the Shopping Cart.

Apple really needs to bring back the Shopping Cart.

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dtr1971

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Oct 10, 2009 6:36 PM in response to RonL

I agree with all of you...i wouldn't wish the "wish list" on anyone. It's totally useless and beyond frustrating. Apple, Bring Back My Shopping Cart!!!

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kegger

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Oct 11, 2009 8:10 AM in response to CasperGemini

I do, too! What a terrible pain in the arse that is! I vote we put it back in the sidebar, call it whatever you want but give us our access back!

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Oct 14, 2009 6:26 PM in response to RonL

I can not stand the wish list...PLEASE bring back shopping cart. If I wanted a million little charges on my credit card.....very unhappy!

Stephchin

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Oct 14, 2009 7:26 PM in response to stephchin

I'm just curious. You're not the first person whose complained about having numerous small charges on their card. I'm not trying to be argumentative, really. I'm curious why that's a problem. Does it some how change how much you get charged by your credit card company?

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Answer 15

Oct 14, 2009 7:50 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Does it some how change how much you get charged by your credit card company?

I had the same thought initially.

Never having been a user of the Shopping Cart, its absence is no big deal to me.

Many users, though, shopped with it exclusively. It's a big change.

To those accustom to it, it's absence is jarring and disconcerting, to say the least.

1-click Matt

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