Comments on: I’m almost going to MacWorld http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/ Radio, broadcasting, websites, and beer. Possibly. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:36:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: William T http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/comment-page-1/#comment-31635 William T Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:28:23 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/#comment-31635 I love Itunes, its wonderful at managing all my music and podcasts, but boy is it: (a) bloated (b) have an horrible update process Specifically, last night, going from 7.5 to 7.6, all to add features we can't get in the UK anyway - download 65mb worth of files, it takes over 15 minutes sitting there at 100% CPU (AMD Athlon 3400+, WinXP, 2GB RAM) to install, then you have to reboot (and you really do have to reboot, it fails if you try and launch in straightaway) Then approve the user license agreement, again, probably not noticing some minor Apple DRM creep near the bottom, then the wonderful "Updating library" dialogue box, where it sits and reindexes thousands of items of content for no apparent reason, that's another 10+ minutes. Its worse than the MS Office install.. And I haven't mentioned the appalling performance of Quicktime in Itunes compared to the standalone product and Windows Media, Intervideo etc. - nor the hijacking of CPU simply to redraw the screen in party shuffle or when downloading podcasts. P.S. Well done - did you really guess all of those correctly beforehand? Bet you weren't expecting the $20 update fee though :-( I love Itunes, its wonderful at managing all my music and podcasts, but boy is it:

(a) bloated
(b) have an horrible update process

Specifically, last night, going from 7.5 to 7.6, all to add features we can’t get in the UK anyway - download 65mb worth of files, it takes over 15 minutes sitting there at 100% CPU (AMD Athlon 3400+, WinXP, 2GB RAM) to install, then you have to reboot (and you really do have to reboot, it fails if you try and launch in straightaway) Then approve the user license agreement, again, probably not noticing some minor Apple DRM creep near the bottom, then the wonderful “Updating library” dialogue box, where it sits and reindexes thousands of items of content for no apparent reason, that’s another 10+ minutes.

Its worse than the MS Office install..

And I haven’t mentioned the appalling performance of Quicktime in Itunes compared to the standalone product and Windows Media, Intervideo etc. - nor the hijacking of CPU simply to redraw the screen in party shuffle or when downloading podcasts.

P.S. Well done - did you really guess all of those correctly beforehand? Bet you weren’t expecting the $20 update fee though :-(

]]> By: James Cridland http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/comment-page-1/#comment-31618 James Cridland Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:09:15 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/#comment-31618 Hurray. I win. Hurray. I win.

]]> By: James Cridland http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/comment-page-1/#comment-31617 James Cridland Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:39:26 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/01/14/im-almost-going-to-macworld/#comment-31617 IPhone updates... Tick... movie rentals... Tick... Come on Jobs, don't let me down now IPhone updates… Tick…
movie rentals… Tick…

Come on Jobs, don’t let me down now

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