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I hate Apple for many reasons I can get into the rest of them later, but what I have noticed is Itunes runs just awfully on my computer when I have a dual core processor, 2gigs of ram, an nice video card, well you can see that below on my signature and there are times on mine and other decent machines when it runs slow. This didn't make me happy in the first place until I saw Itunes 7 something running on a four or five year old IMac while doing two or three other applications and it running fine.

So my hypothesis is either one of two things, both being unfavorable.
1. That Apple purposely programs Itunes to run awful and hog system resources on PC's so that it will look like Mac's run better than their faster PC couterparts.

2. That they hire people who know little to nothing about programming to develop Itunes for the PC, which is basically the same thing just a deifferent method.

So what are your thoughts, has anyone else noticed what I have?

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Well I don't have a mac to compare it to, but I absolutely loathe iTunes for myriad reasons, one of them being that it seems almost like a persistent piece of adware for as far as I can tell based on how it behaves, and I toss quicktime into that boat as well... and also because it seems to hog up a lot of resources and make everything else run crappy. I really detest that program.

Reply to divpers

I do not have Itunes but it would seem strange that Apple would purposely cripple such a cash cow since the PC market is so large.

Reply to choknuti

If my little idea is correct though they aren't doing it to cripple their market but to get people from the PC to the Mac even though I've recently found out is less secure than win xp.

Reply to fast1marine

With Steve Jobs one never knows. Though I think they should be able to make more money selling tunes to windows users.

Reply to choknuti

Yeah but if they can try and convert them to mac users and still buy music it's more cash in the pockets of that same stupid outfit he's been wearing since 84.

Reply to fast1marine

I have itunes for both mac and windows and notice no noticible difference between load up times and responsiveness

Reply to Dan1317

Seems like apple has crippled it on both. :D Some people will try to find a conspiracy anywhere.

Reply to choknuti

not trying to start an argument but i kind of do want to have someone disagree with me to see if anyone actually does i mean I enjoy being right and all but there has to be someone that thinks otherwise.

Reply to fast1marine
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