iTunes - The Best Windows App Ever Written!


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Saw this on the video where Steve Jobs calls iTunes the best windows app ever written, oh the irony!

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For those of you who want proof, he says it in the first 10 seconds

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And his comparisons ignore the (at the time) fan favourite Winamp.

Goes to show the guy was full of crap.

No, he was a good sales person. Why show a superior software if you're trying to sell yours?
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No, he was a good sales person. Why show a superior software if you're trying to sell yours?

OK, I will concede that. I was about to say a good salesperson doesn't need to lie about there product, but yes there are ways that SUBJECTIVELY iTunes beats the other 2 apps listed, thus making it SUBJECTIVELY the best of the 3.

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No, he was a good sales person. Why show a superior software if you're trying to sell yours?

He was a good sales person. That was really his true strength...

Though even for him, this is quite the statement. lol

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I don't think I've ever heard so much BS in a 10 minute video. Did Steve even believe the stuff in his presentations? Amazing salesperson though.

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Holy crap...I have to get my boots on to wade through all that bull****.

Granted, WMP is far from perfect but iTunes is buggy and just as proprietary. And just plain ignore all the free options for Windows.

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He says that Windows media player doesn't work with the iPod, isn't it that the iPod doesn't work with Windows media player, big difference and a good choice of marketing words.

It is clever, no doubt about that. "Our product is better than the competition because we've made our other product not work with the competition".

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I'm going to be 'that guy' who has no problem with iTunes. I'm not really much of an audiophile (I can tell when a song sounds better and such but that's the height of it), but the iTunes interface is the one I'm used to, and I don't want to have to work through all the other programs to get used to them. I like the Album Grid in iTunes, especially.

I might not have been much of a fan of Steve Jobs, but I can respect his accomplishments in life and his ability to sell a product.

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Holy crap...I have to get my boots on to wade through all that bull****.

Granted, WMP is far from perfect but iTunes is buggy and just as proprietary. And just plain ignore all the free options for Windows.

Isn't everything Apple makes proprietary?

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I think from GUI stand point iTunes looks stunning, way better than WMP ever looked. On a Mac it performs wonderfully.

However it is the biggest piece of bloated software I've ever had the misfortune to use, on Windows. I hate the way it forces you to have Quicktime, and all the other little bit of stuff Apple needs to keep an eye on it users......rant over.

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I kind of want to know how Apple screens their attendees. Are there ever any hecklers in the audience for when they spout out BS like this? Maybe you have to sign some kind of contract or prove that you worship Steve Jobs before you get in. I would go to one of these just to troll the reality distortion field, even if I got tasered out of there.

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