[Marticus]

While trying to avoid the cliche "Apple sux" explanation, I'm actually genuinely surprised they botched this as badly as they seem to have.

Maybe it's releasing a product without a comprehensive music database being in place. Maybe it's the inability to link to, you know, their OWN PRODUCT a la last.fm and, well, anything.

But really, whoever was in charge of this obviously wasn't being watched closely enough - this is a software foul-up of pretty large proportions.

Plus I like the implication that they don't trust any other form of avatar/username site (Gravatar, etc) and instead you have to take your picture with your cute widdle iCameraAsApprovedByApple and then wait for it to be "approved."

Which makes me feel immensely sorry for anyone whose job encompasses looking to see if pictures violate a ToS agreement, even if it is 10 minutes a day, and even if it is "pre-filtered" by some type of algorithm (surely, please for the love of all things surely).

Overall, depressing.