No way would I install this.
Well, for the almost 100 million owners of the devices, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, you've already got it and you use it for synching your music, movies, address book, calendars and many other items that you use on those devices -- with your computer and to manage those devices, do the upgrades on those devices and also, for getting more movies, more music... or also for putting your own music from CDs onto your computer and/or to get them over to those devices.
You can use the iTunes program for doing all those things, and it's useful whether you have those other devices or not, because there are a ton of "Podcasts" out there (on many different subjects), too (I listen to quite a few of them myself, while on the computer).
And you may not know this, but iTunes got its start at Apple from a program I had on my iMac long before iTunes ever existed. It was the best program "out there" at the time, for managing your music on your computer, and I used it for getting my CDs (at the time, back in 1998). And this was long before any iPod or any MP3 player, used by the mass market, came out ... doncha know.
That program was called "SoundJam" and I fondly remember it. At first, I was disappointed to see that SoundJam was not going to be continued any longer, when it was announced (by the owner/developers -- Jeff Robbin, Bill Kincaid, and Dave Heller -- that they had sold the program and were no longer going to sell it). But, when I found out that Apple had bought it and was going to continue development, I knew that program was going to have an excellent future from then on -- and it certainly has, thus far, as iTunes.
A side note here on SoundJam, it was originally distributed by an outfit that distributed other software by individual developers and it was an excellent company -- Casady & Greene. You long-time Macintosh users will probably remember them, fondly.
Anyway, that was quite the thing, way back then, to get your CDs onto the computer to hear it play, in digital format and not have to have your CD handy to put into the slot ... :-). When I was doing that back in 1998, I had no idea about all the rest to come in the future -- what we see in 2010.
Apple has come a long way and has definitely been a "game-changer" and a creator of "new paradigms" by producing wildly successful products, programs and services for the customers.
It's no wonder that Apple has the highest customer service rating in the industry and has such high reserves of cash-on-hand, in their company, even during a Depression (as we're in now) and keeps selling those wildly successful products in the midst of this Depression, and increasing sales... quite amaging!
Look at this -- even during our very dour financial circumstances, Apple keeps doing very well with their wildly successful products that they design, make and sell to the average consumer in this country (and other countries, too...).
Thanks mostly to the iPhone, Apple's cash and investments rose to about $42 billion as of March 31, nearly three-quarters of the tech company's total assets. In six months' time that figure could approach $50 billion, given Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes's estimate that Apple will generate $14.6 billion in free cash flow this fiscal year.
As a banker, though, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is no Jamie Dimon. Invested heavily in government and corporate securities and commercial paper, based on past disclosures, the money earned an average yield of 0.75% in the December quarter. Apple hasn't disclosed the March-quarter yield.
