<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>jheriko</author><text>i don&amp;#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.&lt;p&gt;the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.&lt;p&gt;they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...&lt;p&gt;... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; discoverable. Want to delete a file? There&amp;#x27;s a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don&amp;#x27;t know the name? Look it up in the Help menu&amp;#x27;s search box.&lt;p&gt;Now, though, they&amp;#x27;ve done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, &lt;i&gt;starting from the edge of the touchpad&lt;/i&gt;. If the piece of text hasn&amp;#x27;t been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can&amp;#x27;t tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore.&lt;p&gt;I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don&amp;#x27;t need to.&lt;p&gt;Because Apple&amp;#x27;s UI is just no longer good. I&amp;#x27;d rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.&lt;p&gt;Sent from my MacBook Pro</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>jheriko</author><text>i don&amp;#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.&lt;p&gt;the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.&lt;p&gt;they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...&lt;p&gt;... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kovrik</author><text>Agree.  
I really love Apple, but I always find myself Googling for &amp;quot;Can I do that in iTunes?&amp;quot; (the answer is usually No) or &amp;quot;How to do this?&amp;quot;.  
And I can&amp;#x27;t say that I want something weird.  
Some workflows look so simple and obvious to me (and I think most people have the same workflows), but they are literally impossible with iTunes and other Apple stuff.&lt;p&gt;For example, I have a 2TB AirPort Time Capsule, but it looks impossible to backup my iPod or MacBook directly to it (which is nonsense, why do I need 2TB then?).  
So I have to create backups with iTunes, then go to `~&amp;#x2F;Library&amp;#x2F;Application Support&amp;#x2F;MobileSync&amp;#x2F;Backup&amp;#x2F;` and copy everything manually to the capsule.&lt;p&gt;Searching for a song in iTunes is always confusing. Why don&amp;#x27;t they have global search field that searches in both Library and connected device?&lt;p&gt;Photos app is another nightmare (and photos management overall)! Again, I just want to connect my iPhone or my camera and transfer photos to AirPort Time Capsule. Impossible.&lt;p&gt;Or in macOS, you can&amp;#x27;t just make some apps fullscreen: they always have that 5px gap between app window and dock bar (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;141800&amp;#x2F;gap-at-the-bottom-of-maximized-windows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;141800&amp;#x2F;gap-at-the-b...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Or the fact they don&amp;#x27;t have proper window management and themes. One have to use third-party apps full of hacks to have, say, dark window theme or some parody of tiling WM.</text></comment>