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by martin-adams 3778 days ago
But he did give us iTunes on Windows, so in my opinion, that about balances things out.
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and also iTunes on Mac. And WiFi on Mac. and XCode on Mac. and App Store on Mac.
Can you elaborate on the issues with iTunes, Wifi, and Xcode? I know the app store is just a wrapper (which makes it pretty bad) but Xcode is a wonderful (but buggy) IDE, I don't understand how you can make WiFi bad, and I really have no idea where they went wrong with iTunes.
iTunes is a slow, bloated mess with UI that gets worse with every release. Classic dumbness: Adding 1 song or photo to a phone requires erasing the entire phone because it's synced from another computer? Or trying to sync a folder of photos from computer -> brand new iPhone with brand new iTunes doesn't work. Just stalled progress bar forever.

WiFi: There are constantly WiFI problems with OSX and iOS. From plain-ol' reliability to straight up bugs. This isn't including boring DNS stupidity from OSX.

https://www.google.com/search?q=osx+wifi+bug

Xcode: Absurdly slugish and crashing constantly.

And don't forget QuickTime!! The all time worst media player.
To be fair, in the time of RealPlayer and such, QuickTime was the least bloated and best performing video player around. There really isn't a use for it in 2016, though.
Have we forgotten RealPlayer so quickly?