You said — It’s cumbersome, a memory and storage space hog, it’s slow, the output quality is audibly worse than any other player, it always tries to link me to websites I’m not interested in, it doesn’t play well with other software.....
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I’ve used this software before it ever came to Apple and it wasn’t cumbersome then and I can’t see that it’s become cumbersome now. That’s a real puzzle to me... :-)
And storage space hog... LOL..., that’s a big laugh. I have to laugh at that, because my biggest problem with storage space is basically storage for all the songs and audio books and movies and TV shows that I want to have access to. The iTunes software is so insignificant to my library of material that it’s sort of funny for me to even consider or give a second thought to software space. I’m trying to sort out space for my library of materials... :-)
And linking to websites is sort of weird, since I’ve never had the software link me once to any website. Now, that’s really strange. I can’t figure out why it never happens to me and it happens to you...
Both my wife and daughter have iPods, so we have iTunes on several of our computers. I still haven't figured out what happened on my daughter's computer, but iTunes lost it's own license information and it wouldn't let us update, or uninstall. We couldn't delete the because we'd lose the licenses to all the iTunes music my daughter had purchased. Apple could fix it either. We left it alone without security updates until we bought a new computer and transferred the music to a fresh install of iTunes.
And storage space hog... LOL..., that’s a big laugh. I have to laugh at that, because my biggest problem with storage space is basically storage for all the songs and audio books and movies and TV shows that I want to have access to. The iTunes software is so insignificant to my library of material that it’s sort of funny for me to even consider or give a second thought to software space. I’m trying to sort out space for my library of materials... :-)
The startup time for iTunes several times that of Windows Media Player, Real Player, or Rhapsody. That's the hallmark of a memory hog. Other software runs distinctly slower when iTunes is running compared to the same software and any other player I've used. I haven't noticed it as much since upgrading my computer, but that still doesn't disqualify it's poor memory performance.
And linking to websites is sort of weird, since I’ve never had the software link me once to any website. Now, that’s really strange. I can’t figure out why it never happens to me and it happens to you...
Every time I search for anything in iTunes (music, album art, music licenses, whatever) the program sends me to the iTunes store and tries to sell me something I'm not interested in. Every time.