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What about QuickTime for Windows?
by angrykeyboarder September 15, 2005 1:31 PM PDT
"[iTunes] represents Apple's first big foray into designing software that works with Microsoft Windows."

Is it that much bigger than the QuickTime Player for Windows which has been around for years? It doesn't seem so.

It's more like this is Apple's 2nd big foray into desining sofware that works with Microsoft Windows....
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What about QuickTime for Windows?
by angrykeyboarder September 15, 2005 1:31 PM PDT
"[iTunes] represents Apple's first big foray into designing software that works with Microsoft Windows."

Is it that much bigger than the QuickTime Player for Windows which has been around for years? It doesn't seem so.

It's more like this is Apple's 2nd big foray into desining sofware that works with Microsoft Windows....
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Apple loves your money
by ajbright September 16, 2005 11:47 AM PDT
but hates the responsibility to its customers that taking the money obligates them to.

Apple are the most arrogant company this side of Microsoft, not only do they charge huge amounts of money for mediocre products, but their customer support is nearly as bad as Dell's.

In typical Apple customer relations style, they'll probably sue the complaining users for releasing information about Apple products before they want the world to know about it, then stick their heads in the sand for a month or two, before finally just replacing the install for itunes with one that has replaced these problems with new ones.

Anyone who buys Apple products are suckers.. $250 for a walkman that can only play what you remembered to transfer to it, and can only play music from one download source - you guys are just so gullible it's almost funny.
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man, uninformed...
by superfunkomatic September 16, 2005 3:38 PM PDT
it's free, free software. bugs happen, including weekly IE security
bugs fixes. you surely must be used to this type of thing by now.
it's part of different hardware, software, software versions - it
should be expected there'll be a few oddities. better that it can't be
installed than ruin all the data on your drive. maybe it's the
operating system, not the software. just wait until there are seven
different versions of Vista - then you'll have 7 different versions of
bugs.
Oh come on
by Jess McLean September 16, 2005 4:28 PM PDT
Apple employees and Mr. Jobs do not need money, all right? Because they are just rich and arrogant and think they are the center of the universe. Oh, and they never admit they are wrong.
MS would never be like that....
by pabcsman September 17, 2005 9:28 AM PDT
but hates the responsibility to its customers that taking the
money obligates them to.

Microsoft charges huge amounts of money for mediocre
products, but their customer support is nearly as bad as Dell's.


Anyone who buys Apple products are suckers.. $250 for a
walkman that can only play what you remembered to transfer to
it, and can only play music from one download source - you
guys are just so gullible it's almost funny.


Clearly written by someone who has NEVER used iTunes and an
iPod.

You deserve everything you get!
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Apple loves your money
by ajbright September 16, 2005 11:47 AM PDT
but hates the responsibility to its customers that taking the money obligates them to.

Apple are the most arrogant company this side of Microsoft, not only do they charge huge amounts of money for mediocre products, but their customer support is nearly as bad as Dell's.

In typical Apple customer relations style, they'll probably sue the complaining users for releasing information about Apple products before they want the world to know about it, then stick their heads in the sand for a month or two, before finally just replacing the install for itunes with one that has replaced these problems with new ones.

Anyone who buys Apple products are suckers.. $250 for a walkman that can only play what you remembered to transfer to it, and can only play music from one download source - you guys are just so gullible it's almost funny.
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man, uninformed...
by superfunkomatic September 16, 2005 3:38 PM PDT
it's free, free software. bugs happen, including weekly IE security
bugs fixes. you surely must be used to this type of thing by now.
it's part of different hardware, software, software versions - it
should be expected there'll be a few oddities. better that it can't be
installed than ruin all the data on your drive. maybe it's the
operating system, not the software. just wait until there are seven
different versions of Vista - then you'll have 7 different versions of
bugs.
Oh come on
by Jess McLean September 16, 2005 4:28 PM PDT
Apple employees and Mr. Jobs do not need money, all right? Because they are just rich and arrogant and think they are the center of the universe. Oh, and they never admit they are wrong.
MS would never be like that....
by pabcsman September 17, 2005 9:28 AM PDT
but hates the responsibility to its customers that taking the
money obligates them to.

Microsoft charges huge amounts of money for mediocre
products, but their customer support is nearly as bad as Dell's.


Anyone who buys Apple products are suckers.. $250 for a
walkman that can only play what you remembered to transfer to
it, and can only play music from one download source - you
guys are just so gullible it's almost funny.


Clearly written by someone who has NEVER used iTunes and an
iPod.

You deserve everything you get!
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is this even a story?
by Dibbs September 17, 2005 9:13 PM PDT
i'm not so sure this is news. maybe a little bit, but not worth the numerous replies to this story.

is it because it's simply Apple making a mistake? what if we did this everytime Microsoft goofed? we'd never get anything done, we be so busy reading and replying to endless articles like these.

spare me the "apple doesn't make mistakes, so this is news" line. i've heard it before. i use Macs all the time. they have problems-they're just have to do more with Apple's philosophy than they're coding skills. their software works fine, i just don't like the closed system9. good thing windows is easy to work with. haha! that was a joke, for all you who haven't used windows before)
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is this even a story?
by Dibbs September 17, 2005 9:13 PM PDT
i'm not so sure this is news. maybe a little bit, but not worth the numerous replies to this story.

is it because it's simply Apple making a mistake? what if we did this everytime Microsoft goofed? we'd never get anything done, we be so busy reading and replying to endless articles like these.

spare me the "apple doesn't make mistakes, so this is news" line. i've heard it before. i use Macs all the time. they have problems-they're just have to do more with Apple's philosophy than they're coding skills. their software works fine, i just don't like the closed system9. good thing windows is easy to work with. haha! that was a joke, for all you who haven't used windows before)
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Works Better than 4.x version and looks better
by ricky010 September 17, 2005 10:47 PM PDT
I dont know anything abt problems, but i think its a great update and i love it.i just organized my vast Rock/Metal collection on it and works and rocks. also : It distinguishes my iPod u2!!!. for god sake its so cute.
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Works Better than 4.x version and looks better
by ricky010 September 17, 2005 10:47 PM PDT
I dont know anything abt problems, but i think its a great update and i love it.i just organized my vast Rock/Metal collection on it and works and rocks. also : It distinguishes my iPod u2!!!. for god sake its so cute.
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Why this article came to be...
by zaznet September 19, 2005 12:58 AM PDT
I'm willing to bed the person writing the article updated with the 5.0 patch and ended up with problems. Now since he can't listen to his IPod, he'll write an article about it and hope his boss doesn't find out he's got the unauthorized ITunes software on his work PC. Now if the boss finds out he can claim he was doing research, yeah, that's it research!

Just my thought on why something as trivial as a bug in a software update became newsworthy.
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Why this article came to be...
by zaznet September 19, 2005 12:58 AM PDT
I'm willing to bed the person writing the article updated with the 5.0 patch and ended up with problems. Now since he can't listen to his IPod, he'll write an article about it and hope his boss doesn't find out he's got the unauthorized ITunes software on his work PC. Now if the boss finds out he can claim he was doing research, yeah, that's it research!

Just my thought on why something as trivial as a bug in a software update became newsworthy.
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ITUNES NIGHTMARE!
by September 23, 2005 3:31 AM PDT
I turned my computer on yesterday, attached my IPOD and nothing! Error after Error report then ensued! I've tried everything (I think!) Any idea what the hell has happenned???
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ITUNES NIGHTMARE!
by September 23, 2005 3:31 AM PDT
I turned my computer on yesterday, attached my IPOD and nothing! Error after Error report then ensued! I've tried everything (I think!) Any idea what the hell has happenned???
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i tunes is now rubbish 5
by September 24, 2005 4:02 PM PDT
please help my p.c is now acting completly stupid and I need my old i tunes back how???
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i tunes is now rubbish 5
by September 24, 2005 4:02 PM PDT
please help my p.c is now acting completly stupid and I need my old i tunes back how???
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I tunes old programe
by September 25, 2005 3:50 PM PDT
all i want is my old i tunes back how the hell do i do it? sombody out there please hear my plee!!!
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Please review
by April 25, 2008 12:21 PM PDT
Ann,
Please review some of the previous posts or go to this link: http://
discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@225.w4uUackbSLa.
0@.68b90c60.

There are step by step instructions on how to make sure iTunes 5
works on your PC.
I tunes old programe
by September 25, 2005 3:50 PM PDT
all i want is my old i tunes back how the hell do i do it? sombody out there please hear my plee!!!
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Please review
by September 26, 2005 8:50 AM PDT
Ann,
Please review some of the previous posts or go to this link: http://
discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@225.w4uUackbSLa.
0@.68b90c60.

There are step by step instructions on how to make sure iTunes 5
works on your PC.
Still trouble w/5.0.1 & iPod 3.1 updates
by donnomarz September 27, 2005 8:04 PM PDT
I have been all over the Apple Discussions to no avail. Looks like lots of people are having similar problems. Mine: Purchased Music does not show/update on my iPod, but is still in my iTunes. All was fine before my update.
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Still trouble w/5.0.1 & iPod 3.1 updates
by donnomarz September 27, 2005 8:04 PM PDT
I have been all over the Apple Discussions to no avail. Looks like lots of people are having similar problems. Mine: Purchased Music does not show/update on my iPod, but is still in my iTunes. All was fine before my update.
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Apple Itunes
by rcrqtrmile October 6, 2007 5:48 AM PDT
Refuses to sync with my Ipod. Going back to the old version. What a POS
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Apple Itunes
by rcrqtrmile October 6, 2007 5:48 AM PDT
Refuses to sync with my Ipod. Going back to the old version. What a POS
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