drjwr wrote:
OK, so this is not anything original: But iTunes, which began a decade ago for music and drag-and-drop to your iPod, has become bloated by attempting to be a do-all -- a media player of several types, a store, and a sync app for various devices, all built on a decade old and unattractive platform. Solutions have been offered all over the tech world for this sluggish, buggy, dinosaur of a program, but Apple plods along, which raises this question: Why does a company that at one time, and in some areas still does (e.g. iOS 7), prided itself on replacing functional old products with revised new ones, which are more attractive and work better, still lumber on with this iTunes format?
Although this is a topic for another thread, I couldn't agree more. Apple needs to separate out iTunes (music, movies, etc.) from the rest of the support pieces. This is what's really holding them back from being fully embraced in Enterprise IMHO. As soon as you mention having to connect an iDevice to "iTunes" for updates, file management, etc. to an uninformed CEO, CFO, etc. they immediately associate it with entertainment rather than business and the conversation gets sidetracked or comes to an immediate end in my experience.
These sorts of bugs may or may not be a result of iTunes trying to be all things, but it certainly can't be helping, again, IMHO.