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So these figures exclude iPhone access. That should change!

Dec 03, 08 - 02:39 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

You guys need another choice on your Balmer poll.
"As long as it takes!"

Dec 03, 08 - 02:52 pm Comment from: MrScrith

@Wandering Joe

or "until MS goes under"

Dec 03, 08 - 03:48 pm Comment from: BiZarRo BaLlmEr

I never thought I would use iTunes on the iPod touch as much as I do. Very convenient and makes getting the free Tuesday song easier.
That's many millions of users being overlooked by iPhone and touch iTunes access.

@Wandering joe
They should run a pool "Is he going to be fired or he is going to step down?

The MDN take has been a bit lacking lately. Am I the only one who appreciates the smug anecdotes?

Here's a reason why I like iTunes.

I bought Prospekt's March by Coldplay from Amazon, or tried to as it failed to download on my MBP. I bought it last week with their promotional offer. I tried it again, the Amazon MP3 Downloader simply timed out no matter what I tried. I had this problem couple of times before and each time I had to contact Amazon to restore access to the albums from my amazon.com/library page. Only then I could download them successfully.

So, I tried that route again. Their CS remains excellent, and someone from India wrote me back within a few hours that I should clear cache, cookies and disable AV and firewalls and try again. Instead of arguing, I did all that to no avail. Amazon techs then tried to restore access but somehow that failed as well. A week worth of correspondence later, they confessed that they were having a technical glitch from my library link and don't know when it might be fixed. Meanwhile they refunded me back the money suggesting I can repurchase the album. Well, the promotion was over and I'll have to pay full price if I were to buy it again. I wrote them back, and they gave me a nice bonus ($10) for my grievances. I am very happy with their support, needless to say.

However, instead trying my luck there again with that album, I instead searched on iTunes, and sure enough that album is selling for $5.99 right now, with iTunes Plus, and it offers the bonus video as well as the Digital Booklet which is really cool. I really like these booklet options. And so, I downloaded the album, in all its DRM free (mostly) AAC 256 kbps glory, without a glitch.

I like iTunes. It has its limitations, like I can't copy paste certain things there as well, like the name of the album I just mentioned etc. And I don't like the reviews as I can't tell the dates etc. iTunes UI can feel cramped and sometimes even MySpacey. I don't like I can't click on the name of the album from a single to see the album instead having to type it up. Or that some of the items won't show their prices or ratings until I access their links. And I'm sure there are plenty.

But overall, when on a song it just works.

:o )

MDN MW: river. Boss?