Every time you hear people talk about Apple, Mac, OSX and related your told that there stuff just works, they are logical and intuitive and a bunch of other very “think happy thoughts” crap.

But even Apple fail, and sometimes they fail miserably.

Right… so iTunes, do you know a more hated piece of crap software for your music and stuff?… I mean Microsoft Windows Media player is fairly bad on its own… but this time it seems like Apple wanted to beat Microsoft at something Microsoft is really good at… what's that?… Making crappy Software...

And here you might say that as Apple always succeed when they set out to do something, they surely did so here as well, there is just that one thing, it aren't really an area you want to be good.

Ok enough irony, ever seen this particular dialog?

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Ok so several things.

  1. Who ever came up with the limitation of only being able to sync with a single iTunes library should be fired instantly!… I have no less than 3 computers I would like to sync my iPhone with. Work, Home Workstation, Home Laptop.
  2. So the dialog appeared when I wanted to “Apply” some changes made to the configuration of what i wanted to Sync… I Did NOT ask it to sync in that process, how hard can it be to flip a little Boolean Apple?… or is “True/False” a to complex concept for you?… Maybe your in the wrong business then considering that EVERYTHING in a computer is composed of just those 2 values.
  3. So I now have 2 choices after wanting to save that little “True/False” change, Erase my iPhone and sync it with this very newly installed and empty library or undo my chance an cancel, ever heard of applications where you just didn’t know what to do, how to get forward, well this is exactly one of those situations.

Last but not least, WHY OH WHY do I have to use iTunes at all? If anyone ever complained about Microsoft always trying to define there “own” things and not just rely on standards, then that is exactly what Apple has always done, difference between Microsoft and Apple today, Microsoft is moving in a much more open and healthy direction, Apply is still back in the 90’s in that area…

It is a damn sad thing that they do understand how the exterior should look more than anyone else…