Why is iTunes still around?

I remember when I got my very first iPod for my birthday, about five years ago. It was pink and really small. I was so happy. Now it would be easy to take all my favourite music with me on my travels or out jogging. My happiness lasted until I downloaded iTunes onto my computer and tried to download music onto my iPod. I scratched my head and furrowed my brow. I couldn’t see the logic in this program, until I understood that it was all about “synchronisation”. I got so angry, why couldn’t Apple make the iPod work like a regular USB memory device, like other MP3 players? A lot of my friends thought that it did work like a USB device and saved their photos exclusively on their iPod, only to see them suddenly disappear at the next synchronisation, losing their photos forever. They learned the iTunes lesson the hard way.

iTunes has been around for more than ten years now, and it still works in more or less the same way. And now we also have iPhones and iPads, where iTunes also serves as the central tool in using them. Synchronisation is still the logic. Is this really the case in 2011? How can it be that people don’t protest more about this?

In October 2011 Apple released a new version of iTunes, iTunes 10.5. I waited hopefully for an improvement. Surely Apple had got it by now. Quite the opposite, now everything goes through the new iCloud service, which iTunes 10.5 supports. This provides the facility to define settings so that any apps, music or books you download are automatically copied to all your other iOs devices. It means that if you buy an MP3 track via your computer, the track can then be transferred automatically to your iPad or iPhone. Isn’t this once more about synchronisation, but simultaneously on several digital devices?

Below are some information pages and guides for those of you who still can’t do without iTunes.

Download iTunes 10.5   http://www.apple.com/se/itunes/

Read more about iCloudhttp://www.apple.com/se/icloud/

A guide that describes how to use iCloud.

http://www.comaroundfree.com/Smartphones__Tablet_PC/iPhone/How_to_use_iCloud_on_your_iPhone,_iPad_or_iPod_touch-7488

Shouldn’t the age of iTunes have been over long ago? Or at least changed to be more like a USB device to benefit users? I look forward to hearing your comments and views on this.

Don´t forget to check out our guides for iTunes