<story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasandrle</author><text>It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there&amp;#x27;s the Windows version...&lt;p&gt;Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].&lt;p&gt;My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping &amp;amp; burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.&lt;p&gt;[1] Tiny Player: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itunes.apple.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;id1140849233&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itunes.apple.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;id1140849233&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novaleaf</author><text>(My Opinion):  This is a business decision.   The user is a captive audience (no alternatives available), so Apple has a disincentive to optimize anything other than profit generators.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s not just Apple.  In Google Play, try housekeeping your app collection, or re-install a specific app on a new device.  It&amp;#x27;s technically possible, but the more apps you have installed in the past, the harder it gets.</text></comment>
<story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasandrle</author><text>It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there&amp;#x27;s the Windows version...&lt;p&gt;Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].&lt;p&gt;My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping &amp;amp; burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.&lt;p&gt;[1] Tiny Player: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itunes.apple.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;id1140849233&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;itunes.apple.com&amp;#x2F;app&amp;#x2F;id1140849233&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>&amp;gt; My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been hoping for this for ages, but looking at the new Music app on iOS I guess I should be careful what I wish for. At least iTunes isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; bad.</text></comment>