iTunes is an Unholy Monster of an Application
December 13th, 2008iTunes is one of the worst applications Apple is currently shipping.
iTunes does a lot. Far too much for one program. At the very least, iTunes’ myriad features should be separated into a media player/store and a sync utility. I would argue it should be split into a music player/store, a video player/store, and a sync utility. One could successfully argue that iTunes should be split into a music player, a video player, a music/video store, a podcast manager, an internet radio player, and a sync utility.
The problem here is that if you need only one of these functions, you are stuck with all of them. If you need all of them, they step on each other’s toes. Nobody wins.