{"id":484,"date":"2007-11-05T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/dear-apple\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T06:58:35","slug":"dear-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/dear-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Apple<\/span>,<\/p>\n

iTunes<\/span> is a pretty nice music app. I have all my MP3s in it. I even use it for podcasts. I have it installed on 4 computers. I’ve bought songs once or twice from the music store. <\/p>\n

I’ve never bought a music video.
\nI’ve never listened to iTunes radio.
\nI’ve never bought a TV show.
\nI’ve never bought a movie.
\nI do not own an Apple TV<\/span>
\nI do not own an iPhone<\/span>.
\nI have 2 iPods, a 3G classic and a shuffle, neither of which can play games.<\/p>\n

Given all this,<\/p>\n

PLEASE STOP ALERTING ME OF USELESS UPDATES!<\/p>\n

Today, the latest ones were iTunes 7.5 and QuickTime 7.3 (which requires a reboot!), neither of which seem to have any features that I can benefit from. Perhaps you could break apart this behemoth called iTunes that seems to do a million things other than play “tunes” and stop nagging me with updates. It seems like every other day I’m being told 4 times about another 100 megabytes of updates which don’t do anything but disable people from putting custom ringtones on their iPhones<\/span>, a feature I don’t care about on a product I don’t own.<\/p>\n

\"iTunes<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Jeff Boulter
\niTunes curmudgeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Apple, iTunes is a pretty nice music app. I have all my MP3s in it. I even use it for podcasts. I have it installed on 4 computers. I’ve bought songs once or twice from the music store. I’ve never bought a music video. I’ve never listened to iTunes radio. I’ve never bought a …<\/p>\n

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