[egze]

You probably meant it in a good way, but it is much better to say "Who knows a good alternative to iTunes?" or "How would you design a perfect music player?".

You wouldn't want to see a post "Who else hates dzohrob's music player?" would you?

[always_good]

Agreed. It also anchors all the comments in the same hostility instead of a more positive, collaborative frame of mind.

Pitchforks out.

It's also funny when software developers assume that other software is somehow the result of an organization's or developer's idea of perfection and immortality instead of the result of a long line of trade-offs and suboptimal resources.

We don't want anyone to assume that about our efforts but it seems to be the default assumption of HN comments.

[dzohrob]

I agree that I should've framed my post better and I appreciate that feedback.

I do understand that iTunes is dealing with a long history of development, and that it has to support lots of use cases that probably explain a lot of the rough edges — I even allude to that in my post.

It's amazing that I can still use my decade-old iPod Shuffle with iTunes at all -- that must be a lot of work. But so much has changed since then, and iTunes as an Apple Music client is a genuinely frustrating experience.

I don't expect software to be perfect. But I want iTunes to be better than it is. I'm paying $10/mo for Apple Music, which actually has an incredible library and editorial playlists... they're just nearly impossible to find.

I'd love to have an amazing Apple Music experience that doesn't also need to manage podcasts, TV shows, audiobooks, and almost 2 decades of music players.

[dzohrob]

Totally fair feedback, thanks. I thought about phrasing it in a different way, but ended up letting my emotions get the better of me.

[crankylinuxuser]

It would be different if Apple didn't chain their mobile computer (iPhone, iPad) to this horrendous piece of software.

MTP exists for a reason, as does USB storage. But "Think Different" means doing worse and nonstandard.