vendredi 14 octobre 2005

iTunes 6 already? That calls for caution Would you chance it? Not me, not yet. Michael Brewer has, now 'Apple Releases iTunes 6', at the MacDevCenter in his weblog. He checks it out. Most likely it's just fine, but iTunes 5 suits me and everything works. Can it really be a month since that last upgrade was offered, swiftly to be followed by a bug fix? In another weblog from the same stable, Giles Turnbull spoke of the 'New Beginnings' with iPods and now video. "Video is 'the wrong direction to go', 'there’s no content,' 'the screens are too small" and competitors to the iPod putting R&D into providing video are 'digging in the wrong place'," Russell Beattie wrote a year ago. Beattie was quoted by Giles quoting the Apple boss, in an entry called 'Mobile Video: why Steve Jobs is Wrong'. Now Steve's on about desperate housewives who don't sound like part of my world. Wonderful, isn't it? Both blog entries are sharp pieces. My words on the potential danger in installing a software update because it's there are still fresh; yet when notice of iTunes 6 flashed up within moments going online, the bad old habit welled up: "Oh, right. Let's install the new one, find out why it's version 6 so fast." "You're no longer one of 'em, Nick," the inner voice warned, "you gave up being a guinea-pig with Cupertino's last hasty release. You're luckier than some you've still got your music." That was the voice to heed. Apple has yet to reply, if ever, about the details I sent them on what's happened to me and others when we've taken risks I'll no longer run. As logged, I'll read what's new, learn if it's more than fancy tricks of little musical interest, take a look at the specialist sites, check up on any woes others may encounter and tell you once it's widely considered "safe". I must mention Fiona Apple again, since her "extraordinary machine" album again constituted much of the day's listening on the remarkable device that goes everywhere. There's no rush to write up Fiona and this album, which is an unexpected gift indeed, has yet to be heard on the home hi-fi and passes the hype test with flying colours. 9:27:45 PM    your views? []

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