Comments on: Apple, please take note

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:37:09 +0000

Connected the iPod to the computer this morning just to charge it. iTunes opened and invited me to upgrade to 7.6.2. I have 7.6.1.9 installed, so that’s a .0.0.1 increment. I wonder what’s new.

So Bruce, yes, almost every time. I ignored it, I’ll wait for 7.6.3. Or maybe 7.7.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:30:38 +0000

I just encountered the dodgy setup process for POP3 email. I was about to rip out what bit of hair I have left, as I kept getting the certificate errors – and then I got sidetracked and left the Touch on the side. I came back to it about 5 minutes later and there was my email.

Good that it worked in the end, but what a damn pain – enough to frighten most people off doing it – especially after paying £12 for the privilege.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:02:30 +0000

Woody, I was hoping you were gonna tell us you have a Zune. How does that kiddy manage your music library?

By: Tony C

Tony C — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:20:13 +0000

You guys!!

By: Ports

Ports — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:32:53 +0000

I also find the adding of icons irritating and frankly arrogant. As is the attempt to force me to install Quicktime, Safari. It’s bad enough that they force me to use iTunes to sync my iPod.

By: Bruce Elgort

Bruce Elgort — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:40:16 +0000

@Darren,

I hear you and agree with you .

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:23:27 +0000

Hi Bruce… I don’t have a problem with iTunes prompting me about updates – I can ignore or accept them. My problem is the bloody thing spawning icons left, right and centre when I do decide to perform an update.

By: Bruce Elgort

Bruce Elgort — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:47:43 +0000

@Scott/Darren,

Why not uncheck the box in the preferences to automagically check for updates? That should probably solve your problem.

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:09:15 +0000

Bang on Scott. The wife buys some turgid chart pap every week, whereas I buy CDs when something good is released, and then it goes into iTunes. So it can be a month or so before I launch it again.

By: Scott Cochrane

Scott Cochrane — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:43:11 +0000

No it doesn’t. But I bet a lot of folk (me included) use iTunes to update the iPod and then don’t touch it for month or so, probably longer.

So it might not be that often .. but I feel like everytime I open iTunes it prompts for upgrades.