iTunes for Windows 10.1.1.4

olirosee

Reviewing 10.1.1.4 (Dec 16, 2010)

I really hate iTunes... really really really hate it. But because I used to have an iPhone, I had to use it. It is terrible as a music management software (I use Mediamonkey for that, including the tagging), has many restrictions yet still makes it incredibly hard to restore your data if you move abruptly to a new computer, and has nothing that other (and smaller) programs don't have.

Most of all, it is SLOW. Slow to install (even for a program of such giagantic size), slow to start, even slow to uninstall. And it requires other software that I never use or don't like, such as Safari and Quicktime.

However (and this is why I give more stars than I should give)...

I recently moved from iPhone 2G to Samsung Galaxy-S (Android).

Now I MISS iTunes!

Let me tell you where iTunes, as bad as it is for a non-Mac user, still shines compared to my Android phone:

- I have to use the crappy Korean made software to upgrade firmware, a POS called "Kies" that's even more bloated and far less functional and reliable than iTunes,

- unlike with iTunes, I cannot arrange my apps (there are over 150 of them) via desktop software, which means that after each FW upgrade I have to spend literally hours to get app links sorted how I want them,

- well yes, maybe this is an Android thing, but now I lose EVERYTHING even after a minor FW fix... all user data, all apps, everything has to be reinstalled from backup, which does not always work 100%

So for this I give 2 extra stars over the 1 I'd normally give. BTW I should have removed one star again because of the confusing UI for the sync settings - they never do what I expect, especially with Outlook Sync or Music Sync.

Once Android has developed to a non-Beta stage OS (perhaps from 3.0?) with universal desktop phone management software, I'll come back and remove 1 or 2 stars here. Just now, there's still something that this program can do better than the competition...

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