Monday, October 20, 2003

Hell really hath frozen over. Apple has released a Windows application. iTunes!!!!! Just used it on a Wintel box and it's IDENTICAL to the Mac version. There is a bit of discrepancy in the OS controls - I guess those that are iTunes specific are Aquafied and Mac-like and those that are dependent on the Windows Toolbox, for efficiencies I imagine, are, how should one say this, uhhh - butt ugly. As in, those bits look like other Windows apps. For example, the Preferences panel. The tabs and buttons and sliders are from the Windows Toolbox, whereas the Equalizer uses MacOS controls. At any rate, the Windows world finally gets to use an application that has been thoughtfully designed for human beings. And iPod owners finally get to throw away MusicMatch forever. Well, you can put it in the Recycle Bin (which means you plan to reprocess, reuse, etc). What were the folks at Microsoft thinking (or smoking) when they were copying the MacOS's Trash?

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