Sunday, November 1, 2009

Moving your iPhone to a New Computer -- Apple's Shame

My god .... what a chore. iTunes is now at version 9 ... so they are on to their 9th life. And yet, these cats can't get the simple process of moving your iPhone or iPod to a new computer to work worth spit.

You have to remember the authorizations of your "audible accounts" ... you have to figure out how to export and import your library (I created a new library so apparently I can no longer import my other library) ... you have to remember to export and import play lists separately (why do these not come with your library?) ...

This could all be automated with one command on iTunes ... "Move iTunes to another computer" and the choice of the home base for iPods and iPhones could be handled with "make this computer my iPhone's home computer" ... it's a trivial concept ...

On Apple's advice forums, you can see this thread, which documents some 14 3rd party utilities that have been written to help with the process ... each does it differently and will varying degrees of completeness and success. Unbelievable ...

Apple are unbearably smug in their commercials ... but they should be ashamed of their iPod / iPhone software cluster fuck ...

Shame on you Apple.

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