I HATE itunes

The dreaded time has come. Itunes is making me update my software. I HATE it when this happens because it’s always the same process. I try to update the software with their stupid updater, it downloads everything, which takes a while, then it has me restart my comp, which I do, then when I try and run itunes I get this great little message:

And the great thing is, I click on help and it does nothing. I guess they are messing with me, they really aren’t here to help. I have to click ok and then it goes away leaving me just as screwed as before. And why the crap does a MUSIC program need a VIDEO program to work? That is one of the most idiotic things in the world. I mean c’mon Apple seriously? You are a multi BILLION dollar company and you can’t even get your software to update correctly? This is why I get a nasty feeling in my stomach every time it MAKES me update their piece of garbage. Well, I guess it’s ok cause I can just go use some other program with my iphone…. oh wait, NO I CAN’T. Every time they update the firmware on my phone it basically makes all the other itunes knock offs worthless. They make you use a piece of crap whether you like it or not. So ok, I guess I’ll have to play their stupid, 3 hour update game, so I went to their site and downloaded the installer. Double clicked it and after waiting WAY too long for it to install it finally works. Which is interesting because in the past, even after downloading the installer it wouldn’t work. I had to uninstall the whole thing, then reinstall it. But I guess they finally got something right and fixed that issue.

Oh, and there’s more. The way it works is horrendous. Syncing…. oh geez…. the all too common 5 hour sync!!! We all love it. It can’t just sync the music it has to sync, videos, music, ringtones, apps, dogs, cats, babies, and everything else it can take a dump on. And it doesn’t just sync, it has to make a backup as well, which is ok UNLESS YOU DON’T WANT A BACKUP!! But itunes doesn’t care if you want a backup or not, IT JUST DOES IT. You put new songs on there and it has to sync. You take songs off, it syncs, you sneeze and it syncs. And to make things worse it will only sync with ONE COMPUTER. So if I have music I want on there I have to put it on the ONE computer itunes is smart enough to handle. I mean heaven forbid it works just like EVERY OTHER MP3 player out there and allows you to just click and drag music into a folder and bam, it’s on your player. No, no, no, that would of been too crappy to have it do something intuitive like that. So once you have your music library all set up and how you want it, and one day you want to handle your music manually, yes they actually have an option to do that, it says all the music will be erased from the iphone. So yay, we get to start all over and wait another 5 hours to put all the music on AGAIN and wait for it to sync which will take as long as it takes me to DIE. And it works the other way as well. You’re managing your music manually then you want to switch to the album library way, yep it will give you this message and erase everything you have.

How completely moronic…

Then there’s apps. You a backup of all your apps, great, now you don’t have to re-download them, which really isn’t a big deal to do but whatever. But then what the crap?! all the apps I deleted on my phone are back!!!! GAAAHHH I HATE YOU ITUNES!!! It takes all the apps it made a backup of and puts them back on the phone if they aren’t present. So even though you deleted the app, itunes doesn’t care, it just puts the app back on there because it was part of the backup….. it doesn’t think, HMM MAYBE HE DIDN’T WANT THAT APP BACK ON THERE. Now some of you may be thinking, “Well, don’t sync your apps then!” Ok well, when I go to uncheck sync apps, I get this popup:

Ya I absolutely totally completely want that to happen… shoot me now…

Oh and ring tones!!! I love how ring tones work as well. I had them all added on itunes ready to go into my phone. It copied them over and I went to my ring tone section and they weren’t there. I tried for about a half hour to get them on, it said they were on there but of course they weren’t showing up. So after googling around a little I found a site that said you can’t manually manage your music and put ring tones on there at the same time. You had to have itunes control your music by the album library method to get the ring tones to work. Isn’t that great? So I had to erase EVERYTHING on my phone, put the music back on the stupid album library way, and resync it (which took forever), just so my ringtones would show up. Ohhhh how I hate thee itunes, may a sword fall on thyself and thrust thee through!

Now don’t get me wrong, the iphone is ok, it has its issues but for the most part is a pretty incredible device. But Apple knows what they are doing, they have to keep you dependent on their way of doing things. You have to use THEIR crappy itunes software, shop on THEIR app store, use only the apps THEY say you can, use THEIR computers to develop apps, and the list goes on. They are restrictive and way too controlling and for that reason, next September, IT’S ANDROID TIME BABY WOO HOO!!! May itunes die a horrible death. Thank you for your time.

P.S.
All I wanted to do was add ONE song to my iphone, that whole process with the updating of itunes, syncing, and all the other garbage Apple makes you do with their devices took about an hour. Just the syncing alone lasted from 7:25pm my time and ended at 7:50pm and all I did was take off an e-book and add one song… itunes is amazing ladies and gentlemen, let’s give it a gold star, then shoot it in the head.