A British View.Why does iTunes suck on Windows computers? Seriously. Mac users don’t seem to complain too much, I mean it’s the operating system’s primary media player so I’m going to assume it works. Then again, technically Windows Media Player was designed for Microsoft… Regardless, iTunes just can’t be as bad as it is on Windows. I’m sure of that.
It’s slow, just, it’s so slow. And on top of that sluggishness it crashes a lot. You plug in an iPod and it’ll take a good couple minutes before it’s connected and if you try to add new music to the library; it will crash. Not only do I have to use Task Manager to force it to close as it completely freezes up every time I try and change anything but when it does work it uses up a ridiculous amount of CPU. This is a major problem because even when you’re not physically editing the music info and album covers, it takes too much CPU to leave open in the background. 
Is it an attack on Microsoft users? Does Apple do this on purpose or did they just put it together and now doesn’t care about editing it further. Putting their focus on the Mac iTunes and not increasing usability and fixing glitches so obviously present in our Microsoft version. I do sort of understand Apple not wanting to spend that much time and money on increasing the Windows users’ experiences. As someone who owns three Microsoft computers I don’t have any real reason to have iTunes beyond that I need it for my iPod Touch. I wouldn’t be too surprised if I found that the iPhone and iPod’s are the main reason PC users have iTunes.
This post doesn’t have a real point other than to bitch about iTunes for a second. I hate that I need this stupid piece of software on my computer that Apple doesn’t even try to make usable. With all the shit they’ve said about Flash (which I do agree with) it’s slightly hypocritical, as iTunes is the same as Flash when it comes to crashing frequency.
