![]() ITunes’s user interface follows from this poor strategy, too. (Arment doesn’t say whether this new app would also play MP3s.) He believes the company should have discontinued iTunes, its media management service, and rolled out a new Apple Music app. Why does iTunes fail at what it sets out to do?Īrment blames its failures on Apple’s decision to cram too many different features into one piece of software. ![]() Apple is the most valuable company in the world and an organization hailed for its good design. Toxic hellstew it may be, a new version of iTunes points at what kinds of technology are allowed to come out of Apple. I agree: It’s why I wrote about how poorly iTunes performs for classical music listeners and, really, for anyone with a large music library.īut it’s worth spending time on iTunes’s specific design problems, which surpass those raised by managing a music library or listening to a specific genre. It is also, in the inimitable judgement of the indie iOS developer Marco Arment, “a toxic hellstew.” ITunes is the glue of Apple’s software universe: It connects the company’s phones and tablets, desktops and laptops, and online media store and streaming service.
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