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Hyperbolic propoganda never works

"Look, I understand that there are certain rules that, for some reason or other, are considered sacrosanct on the Mac. One is that the menu bar can't be moved, ever. Fine, whatever. Another is that windows can't be maximized, not really. They can be manually resized to stretch almost to the edges of the screen, but they can't be maximized with a single click so that they stretch to the absolute edges of the screen. Apparently Steve hates that, and that's fine, it's your platform, dude."

Ok, yeah, apparently he's never heard of Option clicking the Maximize button in Mac OS X. I've found that in almost all windows in Mac OS X, that if you Option click the maximize button, the window actually maximizes to fill the screen (but doesn't lock it to full screen like in Windows). And in some windows if you just simply click on the Maximize button the window, as a default, fills the screen. Same with Mac OS 9.1.

Yet another Windroid finding fault from only first impressions and not seeing if he's right or not.

"First, it widened enough to accomodate the number of columns, which would have worked except that some of the titles of my tracks are truncated because the title column is too narrow, and when I drag the column to make it wider, the horizontal scrollbar reappears, so I'm back where I started."

Gee, he's never heard of the fact that you can't see 1280 pixel width worth if info on a 800 pixel width screen? Whatever... SAME THING HAPPENS IN WMP9! It's simple physics! Get a bigger monitor with more pixel support!

"Where'd it go?!? Oh, there it is, way in the upper left of my screen. The entire interface evidently resized to a "minimal" mode, which Apple mysteriously decided to access via the "maximize" button. Does that mean the "minimize" and "close" buttons don't work either? I'm too afraid to find out."

Hyperbolic propoganda like this gets annoying after a while. Whatever...

"So the question remains: how do I maximize the window? There's no "View" menu. No matter what music manager I'm using (Windows Media Player, Music Match, Sonic Stage, etc.) I always maximize the window when organizing my music, so that I can see as much information at once as possible."

Really? Because when I do that I run into a common road block with all media players: in order to see ALL information with their columns maximized and all info present THERE IS ALWAYS A HORIZONTAL SCROLL BAR! You can only fit so much info in a limited space! If you want more space then get a second monitor. Or a bigger one with more X and Y axis pixels and a graphics card that can handle more resolution than modern GPUs can handle.

Y'know... I can see the non-Windows specific problems he sees in iTunes and QuickTime. Maybe if he asks nicely while using Apple's famous feedback forms instead of ranting here where Apple developers probably don't go often anyway.

But the swipes at Apple's Mac OS X without a solid basis of knowledge (seeing whether your rants are right or not) which have little to do with the Windows specific problems of iTunes is getting annoying, tiresome and old. Instead of treating iTunes like the Windows app it should be, you attack it for being too much like the Mac OS X version. Gee, a real professionally done criticism there, dude. The clear bias you have against Apple is pretty darn evident. We need less opinions like your's and more helpfull constructive criticisms to make iTunes better for Windows.

Another thing: THIS IS THE FIRST ATTEMPT! THIS IS LIKE VERSION 1! It may say 4.0.1.52, but we all should know better. After all, did Internet Explorer 4 look like IE5.0.3 in the first release? NO!

Posted by: M-80   Posted on: 10/17/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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