[HN Gopher] What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
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What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
Author : howrude
Score : 22 points
Date : 2020-01-18 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
| mgleason_3 wrote:
| Or maybe, it's just that iTunes sucks, hard.
|
| ...and has for 10 years.
|
| ...so Apple - let us manage our own digital media.
| noughtme wrote:
| Does the author mean to say the 'explosive success' of itunes
| that required its functionality be spun off into three separate
| apps? Another boomer who doesn't know how to use his phone or
| alter Finder preferences on the first page of settings!
| greatquux wrote:
| I don't know. He really floated away into his own sea at the
| end there. I sort of get his point, just not how he got there,
| or whether it's really the case at all.
| hinkley wrote:
| Some things sound great when you write the first few
| paragraphs and turn to hash by the time you get it all down.
|
| If I were reborn as an author I'd hope I was wise enough to
| always trust my editor more than my ego. They don't hand em
| out to non writers.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| > Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now
| just search for it from the top bar.
|
| Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must
| be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
| rosstex wrote:
| Didn't expect the article to mention this, but this is
| absolutely true for me. I only know the locations of some apps,
| and I search for the rest.
| ViViDboarder wrote:
| I rigorously organize my mobile apps, so this is quite rare
| for me. However, pretty much everything I do through my
| desktop (GUI at least) is done with search. Actually, I do
| the same in my terminal too with `fzf`, but to a lesser
| extent.
| [deleted]
| CharlesW wrote:
| My take on the author's take is that by point 10, he's realized
| what a muddled and silly thing this is.
|
| > _So what really failed, maybe, wasn't iTunes at all..._
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| At which point whatever substance he's abused to get that far
| _really_ kicks in for his final point.
|
| > _In 1940, the German critic Walter Benjamin wrote about an
| angel in a Paul Klee painting. [...] It is now clear, 80 years
| later, that the angel is looking at his phone._
|
| Sheesh.
| gswdh wrote:
| Yeh I thoroughly hate iTunes. The opening time alone, but the
| store vs library separation was...
| est31 wrote:
| iTunes is dead? Have I missed something?
| JMr3c376 wrote:
| ... iTunes became a bucket of too many features, so apple split
| it up into multiple applications. Apple music is pretty much
| exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music
| related features. It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just
| changed names.
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| Uses same 1gig of ram and misses some key features like proper
| track search. Go figure how it's an improvement...
| tambourine_man wrote:
| >proper track search
|
| Please explain
| m463 wrote:
| Probably just became to unweildy for the developers and they
| split it out.
|
| I can't imagine successfully staffing a giant monolithic
| application. I think it would be hard to get job satisfaction
| working on a tiny piece of an app with decades of cruft.
|
| Most apps like this are several orders of magnitude larger than
| say, the linux kernel.
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