Not everyone loves Steve's parties

Yeah, while we were all geeking out and refreshing the Engadget page ad nauseam, the world continued to spin as it always does. Sure, there are bigger things in the world to consider like how to keep your linens fresh.

And to painfully remind me of this fact, there's my wife. She's a fan of the Mac, after I made a convert of her several years ago (with an iBook G3 no less). But she's not obsessed like me. And when I started gushing about all the new toys today, she wasn't really interested.

To further drive home her point, she started playing around in the iTunes Music Store. She didn't update iTunes, so it's still called the "music" store. Now, she's doing this at about 2:45 pm Eastern time. Any sane Mac zealot such as myself would say this is a bad idea. And it was-- errors popped up repeatedly while she attempted to buy "50's cruising music" for my son's "Cars" themed birthday party. Samples failed to load, and sometimes putting something in her cart was a multi-click affair. See, she's not even sold on the 1-click joyness! Ultimately she gave up, not downloading anything yet at my request. She turns to me and says, "have all your geek buddies messed up iTunes or something?" "Yes," I say, "we broke it with our love." I guess one person's party is another's poison...

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/live-from-the-steve-jobs-…

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Yeah, while we were all geeking out and refreshing the Engadget page ad nauseam, the world continued to spin as it always does. Sure, there...

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Ben McMath

haha, that has to be one of the funniest articles I have read on TUAW!

September 13 2006 at 12:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wry Cooter

I can't stand it when a podcast or MP3, stream, movie, whatever, downloaded from someones site, is set up by default to open up in iTunes rather than quicktime.

I don't necessarily want the thing in my iTunes library, and I don't need to see my entire 'card catalog' for my iTunes library just to listen to or view their content. And opening and closing and controlling iTunes is more awkward in that situation; for one I don't want an entire playlist enacted, some other file to follow.

September 13 2006 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete

They should have taken the store down earlier.

September 13 2006 at 11:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darrell

Smart and witty, I love it.

September 13 2006 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Liquidmark

"we broke it with our love."

Awesome!

September 13 2006 at 9:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

one1step1

If wives could only share our passion. Reminds me of this Joy of tech Cartoon:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/837.html

For the record.. my girl didn't run software update either... ;-( So now we have an iBook in the house that has 'legacy' itunes on it.

September 13 2006 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ron

Wait.. with the Pic and the story did Vic just call his wife a dummie? LOL

September 13 2006 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dalton

My wife wasn't too excited when she found out none of her podcasts would update this morning.

Then, later on, I wasn't too excited to find out that my iTunes no longer opens at all. iTunes 7 - feh!

September 13 2006 at 9:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Angel

My husband is the PC user in my house and I'm the Mac user and surprisingly he was just enthused as I was. I received quite a few text messages during the event about items he was excited about. That's why I believe yesterday will turn out to be a big plus for Apple because many of the products/enhancements will appeal to non-Mac users.

September 13 2006 at 8:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ele©tro

LOL! "We broke it with our love"....Classic. I'll have to remember that.

September 13 2006 at 8:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply