Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunes
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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ZDAR said 7:23AM on 9-13-2006
We all have people like that in our lives, no need to write an article about it.
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Zeke said 7:48AM on 9-13-2006
Perhaps you could purchase Shakespeare in Love from the moviestore, get a bottle of Champaign and enjoy the movie by candlelight on your Mac ;)
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Julien said 7:57AM on 9-13-2006
ZDAR, you don't have people like that in your life, they have geeks like you in their lives. ;)
Interesting article. Though you could lay back and think: actually a lot of people were outside while Steve was giving his speech, you know, socialize, have fun.
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eletro said 8:20AM on 9-13-2006
LOL! "We broke it with our love"....Classic. I'll have to remember that.
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Angel said 8:52AM on 9-13-2006
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.
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dalton said 9:12AM on 9-13-2006
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!
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Ronald said 9:24AM on 9-13-2006
Wait.. with the Pic and the story did Vic just call his wife a dummie? LOL
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one1step1 said 9:42AM on 9-13-2006
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.
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Liquidmark said 9:59AM on 9-13-2006
"we broke it with our love."
Awesome!
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Dar the Monk said 10:47AM on 9-13-2006
Smart and witty, I love it.
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Peter White said 11:02AM on 9-13-2006
They should have taken the store down earlier.
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Wry Cooter said 12:26PM on 9-13-2006
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.
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Ben said 12:59PM on 9-13-2006
haha, that has to be one of the funniest articles I have read on TUAW!
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