Talkcast tonight, 7 PM PT/10 PM ET: iPad 2 Event Edition!

All that whining about iTunes "the program."

Apple uses iTunes and the 30 pin connectors to lock in owners of iOS devices. Best I can tell, iTunes itself is a front end to an SQLite or similar database, but you're smokin' something funny if you think Apple is going to forfeit the "lock in" and "control" part, which is what makes iTunes suck, to the extent it does.

Apple could easily let us have access to the file system on iOS devices, making copying music, videos, addresses, text, WHATEVER, on and off as easy as it is on my Android, a Nexus One.

But that's NOT the "Apple way." When it works (and it mostly does), having to connect an iOS device (or iPod) to iTunes is merely an annoyance. When it doesn't, and for those Windows folks out there, it apparently doesn't all too often, it is much worse than a mere annoyance.

So you want separate programs to sync APPs, Music, Videos, and back up your phones and iOS gear? Finder does all that, just fine, when I plug in my USB Android phone. Drag and drop, I'm done. Not on iOS. Not in a zillion years. Not ever.

@Kelly

I think a number of us readers expressed our displeasure at your flippant line about Steve. Apparently you either didn't get the message or you are in effect giving us the finger.

If the latter is the case-back at you!

This show starts too late for a Sunday show here on the east coast. It should be on Saturday's. Just like tuaw live show starts at five as we leave work. Just bad timing all around.

Can one participate in the talk cast with an iPad?