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- murphykieran
So anyway, recently, I'm busy playing Quake 4 one evening. I'm blowing away Strogg scum and enjoying the intense immersive experience of playing a modern FPS PC game. I'm really getting into it when....
...iTunes pops up on my screen. I don't even remember downloading it and installing it. But there it is. It's
interrupted my gaming sessions to inform me that it's going to search my hard drives for music files. I assume that one of the several other people who regularly use my PC must have installed it for their iPod or something, because I sure as hell didn't download and install it. I'd remember it.
So I try to tell it to stop searching my hard drives. I don't want software using up my computer's resources searching for music while I'm doing something as intensive as playing video games. But I can't find a STOP button or an option in the menus to tell it to stop. There's nothing obvious anyway. So I simply hit the X close button.
Which does nothing for about 15 seconds while I hit it repeatedly, thinking that it's crashed or stalled. Meanwhile, Quake 4 is still running in the background and I'm eager to get back to the business of blowing the living snot out of alien scumbags.
Eventually iTunes gives me one those cryptic messages that Mac users I know are are always laughing at me for. Because only useless Microsoft software asks you questions about scripting interfaces and other software that may or may not be using them. Apple software is kind and friendly, right? No. It's asking me if I'm really willing to quit iTunes, as if other programs will explode or something because they're using something called an "iTunes scripting interface"... Whatever the hell that is. I'm sure it's obvious if to the average PC users, no?
Anyhoo, it eventually agrees to quit and I gladly get back to my Strogg blasting and forget about iTunes...
Until the next time it decides to pop up at random and annoy me. I've got a few hard drives in my PC and they're horribly unorganised. I've got MP3s, video files, photos, etc. spread over 4 hard drives and I decide to go to the trouble of copying them all into My Documents on the primary drive I use. Just trying to make an effort to organise my stuff sensibly, you know...
So I'm just browsing these MP3, video and photo folders when iTunes just pops into view again. It's just exploded into view without warning and seems to be trying to add to it's library the files I'm currently trying to copy and reorganise. I never asked it to do anything. I didn't even know it was sitting there in the background watching me, and waiting for me to do something with MP3s so it could pounce out of the darkness and annoy me.
Who designed this kind of rotten awful badly designed software that lurks hidden in the background and pops into view trying to copy and tranfers files without warning while you're already busy doing something intensive like playing games or transferring several gigs of files from one drive to another? I want to send a letter-bomb to the person at Apple Computer who thought that media player software should sit hidden on your computer and explode into view when you're moving files or when you're doing something you don't want interrupted, like playing games.
Aren't Apple meant to be famous for designing easy-to-use and user-friendly software?
Aargh! Don't mind me, I just need to rant. I've uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime. I'm gonna get one of those Quicktime alternative video viewers and pin a note to my PC warning iPods users not to install iTunes. This isn't an anti-Apple rant. I've had different but equally exasperating experiences with RealMedia and Windows Media Player in the past.
KM.
...iTunes pops up on my screen. I don't even remember downloading it and installing it. But there it is. It's
interrupted my gaming sessions to inform me that it's going to search my hard drives for music files. I assume that one of the several other people who regularly use my PC must have installed it for their iPod or something, because I sure as hell didn't download and install it. I'd remember it.
So I try to tell it to stop searching my hard drives. I don't want software using up my computer's resources searching for music while I'm doing something as intensive as playing video games. But I can't find a STOP button or an option in the menus to tell it to stop. There's nothing obvious anyway. So I simply hit the X close button.
Which does nothing for about 15 seconds while I hit it repeatedly, thinking that it's crashed or stalled. Meanwhile, Quake 4 is still running in the background and I'm eager to get back to the business of blowing the living snot out of alien scumbags.
Eventually iTunes gives me one those cryptic messages that Mac users I know are are always laughing at me for. Because only useless Microsoft software asks you questions about scripting interfaces and other software that may or may not be using them. Apple software is kind and friendly, right? No. It's asking me if I'm really willing to quit iTunes, as if other programs will explode or something because they're using something called an "iTunes scripting interface"... Whatever the hell that is. I'm sure it's obvious if to the average PC users, no?
Anyhoo, it eventually agrees to quit and I gladly get back to my Strogg blasting and forget about iTunes...
Until the next time it decides to pop up at random and annoy me. I've got a few hard drives in my PC and they're horribly unorganised. I've got MP3s, video files, photos, etc. spread over 4 hard drives and I decide to go to the trouble of copying them all into My Documents on the primary drive I use. Just trying to make an effort to organise my stuff sensibly, you know...
So I'm just browsing these MP3, video and photo folders when iTunes just pops into view again. It's just exploded into view without warning and seems to be trying to add to it's library the files I'm currently trying to copy and reorganise. I never asked it to do anything. I didn't even know it was sitting there in the background watching me, and waiting for me to do something with MP3s so it could pounce out of the darkness and annoy me.
Who designed this kind of rotten awful badly designed software that lurks hidden in the background and pops into view trying to copy and tranfers files without warning while you're already busy doing something intensive like playing games or transferring several gigs of files from one drive to another? I want to send a letter-bomb to the person at Apple Computer who thought that media player software should sit hidden on your computer and explode into view when you're moving files or when you're doing something you don't want interrupted, like playing games.
Aren't Apple meant to be famous for designing easy-to-use and user-friendly software?
Aargh! Don't mind me, I just need to rant. I've uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime. I'm gonna get one of those Quicktime alternative video viewers and pin a note to my PC warning iPods users not to install iTunes. This isn't an anti-Apple rant. I've had different but equally exasperating experiences with RealMedia and Windows Media Player in the past.
KM.
