Who was the moron that designed iTunes 12? They need to go back to design school. How the hell did this pass QA at a company that prides itself on design and usability? Everything is harder to access or use.
I felt exactly the same way as you when Office 2007 came out. They didn't make office better, easier or cheaper. They forced you to re-learn everything all over again as if they had made it better, easier and cheaper.Who was the moron that designed iTunes 12? They need to go back to design school. How the hell did this pass QA at a company that prides itself on design and usability? Everything is harder to access or use.
I'm a bit perturbed that I still cannot use the back button on my mouse. I believe it worked in iTunes 10, but it hasn't worked since the update to 11. I've also noticed that my keyboard's multimedia key functionality is garbage. I was listening to an album, and regardless of how often I hit next or previous in quick succession, I could only ever listen to two songs on an album that had around 40 songs!
I can't get the podcast icon to stick to the front screen. It always hides behind the three pips when changing to the store or music.it took me a while to figure out how to configure the podcasts on my ipod
but everything, once you find it, seems to be there still!
I felt exactly the same way as you when Office 2007 came out. They didn't make office better, easier or cheaper. They forced you to re-learn everything all over again as if they had made it better, easier and cheaper.
Apple has to change iTunes every once in awhile, otherwise people get use to it and start to realize how awful it is.
-KeithP
Who was the moron that designed iTunes 12? They need to go back to design school. How the hell did this pass QA at a company that prides itself on design and usability? Everything is harder to access or use.
I kinda liked the Ribbon interface and felt it made sense. Needed some refinement which it got in Office 2010 and 2013 but the Ribbon interface actually made sense. Especially for new users.
iTunes 11 was not that bad once you enable the sidebar. This new version, everything just feels clunkier and harder to access. I'm fairly proficient with computers and actually deal with UI issues at work so I can get used to it but the new iTunes 12 just doesn't feel intuitive. And the new icon took some getting used to. I thought the red color meant something was messed up with iTunes.
All I know is, the icon changed color. Wtf? I haven't opened iTunes in quite awhile though. Come to think of it, I haven't even plugged my phone into my computer in a long time either.
Anything has to be an improvement over just how truly awful iTunes was though.
Icon is now red. Why?
They changed it to match the music app on iOS.
They changed it to match the music app on iOS.
Also the old one was blue and most of the time I accidentally clicked on the App Store icon instead of the iTune.
I just installed it. I was the opposite. Sooooo much better. The old one looked so dated.
I don't remember any previous version of iTunes that was any good... maybe back when it was purely for music and not a sprawling mess of an 'iDevice Manager' slash music library management slash music purchasing program, but even then the first versions of iTunes I encountered significantly slowed down the startup routines of the PCs they ran on.
Major issues with iTunes 12: App updates no longer show the changelog! Not only that, but there's no link to the App Store so you can find out what the hell changed in this version. Why?