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27 Jul 08
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You’re having, like, an impedance mismatch.
Macs are becoming, pretty much as far as possible, dissociated from the concept of files. So, iTunes holds your music - that it does it with files is an implementation issue. iPhoto holds your pictures - same thing applies. Macs are also all about things just working for with the reason why they are just working also being an implementation issue. Hence the bonjour service - needed to discover other iTunes instances. The iPod helper - needed to start iTunes when you plug the iPod in.
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You’re having, like, an impedance mismatch.
Macs are becoming, pretty much as far as possible, dissociated from the concept of files. So, iTunes holds your music - that it does it with files is an implementation issue. iPhoto holds your pictures - same thing applies. Macs are also all about things just working for with the reason why they are just working also being an implementation issue. Hence the bonjour service - needed to discover other iTunes instances. The iPod helper - needed to start iTunes when you plug the iPod in.
The problem is you have to buy into it. If you keep thinking in terms of files and (shudder) actually being in control of the box in front of you, you’re going to hate it. But if you realise that the whole of Apple is based around a ‘consumer device, that does this thing’ then it all starts to make sense.
It’s not for everybody, sure, but it’s how it is. You might have been better served by a more file centric MP3 player. There’s certainly no shortage of suppliers :)
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26 Jul 08
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What does “closing an application” mean to you? To me it means that the entirety of that application is unloaded. Apparently Apple chose a more beatnik approach to this question, adding services that continue running long after the red X has been pressed. In fact, iTunes secretly installed three permanently memory resident programs: iPodHelper, AppleMobileDeviceService and iTunesHelper. For the computer un-initiated those might be all you’d discover running. But there’s more. Installed in the hidden service layer of Windows, we find Apples Bonjour network service. If we look for it, we even find installed a separate Apple Software Update application (despite us twice having told iTunes we don’t want to update anything, ever). Poor suck-o-meter that only goes to 10. This one goes to 11.
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