Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“I'm sure many actually enjoy the iTunes, IOS maps and the selected user experience but Apple still have their work cut out to improve on it.
That list of work rounds gets ever bigger.”
You don't need iTunes to use an iPad so I'm not sure how that's relevant to the user experience. It would be like complaining about the Kindle experience because you choose to use Calibre to manage it. However iTunes isn't as bad as many people like to make out. The main issue with it is on Windows where its a bit bloated which can see it be sluggish without a good CPU and plenty of RAM.
The software itself isn't bad and there are major benefits to using it (or any catalogue based syncing program) over a drag and drop system. Admittedly there are also times when you want to sync a single item and drag and dropping would be so much easier but its horses for courses.
The Maps app was a fiasco but its an App not an integral part of the system. There are perhaps some Apps which may be but an app that for a long time they outsourced isn't really one of them imho. I do also suspect it wasn't supposed to launch when it did, it seems rushed so I'm guessing they expected Googke to renew the deal for another year but talks broke down.
Certainly the map app doesn't impact the core operation of the iPad which does work smoothly and in an intuitive manner,
Originally Posted by whoever,hey:
“The fact it has iTunes on it ruins the user experience for me!”
What exactly is wrong with iTunes on the iPad/iPhone? I can understand people hating iTunes on Windows because its somewhat slow and bloated (its a million times better on a mac mind you) but iTunes on iOS is nothing more than an App Store. An App Store that I personally think is better designed than the the Google Play one currently is