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Version: iTunes 8.0.2.20
"Bloated, slow, and frustrating"
Pros: iTunes store is good, now with (mostly) no drm, good iPod settings pages, nice podcast integration. Easy to get gift certificates. The interface is reasonably intuitive.
Cons: Extremely slow, bloated, crashy, looks like a mac application. It'd be nice if it looked like a Windows app, too.
Summary: Apple obviously put no effort into optomizing iTunes for Windows. For example, on my friend's mac, iTunes opens in less that 3 seconds. I have a smaller music collection and a much better machine, but it takes iTunes over a minute to open on mine. iTunes also looks like a mac application. Blah. If I wanted an app that looked like a mac I'd buy a mac. As a programmer myself, I know that it actually takes more effort to make a program look like it does on another operating system than it does to simply make the program look like a native program does. This bugs me.
I really don't recommend using iTunes for anything other than music shopping, and even then, Amazon mp3 is cheaper, higher quality, and with absolutely zero DRM (iTunes still has DRM on some labels). So really, iTunes is a program that should be skipped. There are plenty of better alternatives, even ones that can sync to iPods, if you look hard enough.
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