No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
> Apple/NeXT have done things that were completely mind-blowing and heretofore impossible.
I actually see this in their transition from amd64 to arm64. While of course they aren't first and there were some bumps, they were confident enough to execute on doing it _at all_.
This comment would read as sarcasm today.
I know quite a few Windows users (that did not own iPods) that converted to using iTunes to manage their music library. The alternative at that point was often Winamp, and they managed to mess up the good thing they had with Winamp 3.
Overall the library functionality, as well as the Rendezvous-based library sharing (made LAN parties into interesting ways to discover new music) made for a quite sweet deal, and the Windows version truly was good.
Stuff went downhill sometime post-iPhone, when it started to become a weird one stop shop for phone sync, backups, movies etc, but even then the odd cool thing was added, like coverflow, or the fairly nice UI where the album coverart’s edge color faded into the background of the listing.
Point being, iTunes wasn’t crap from day one, it was cool before it deteriorated into that.
Might as well get rid of the dedicated music player too.
Meanwhile: Sign up for Apple Music! It's the future of Apple!
