Just read "Be Evil" by Anil Dash in the current issue of Wired, 20.08.
Topic matter is the unshackled Microsoft after 9 years of living under the Clinton era consent decree, but what I really enjoyed were the lines about iTunes.
I've been shunning iTunes since iTunes was a baby, but recently I've downgraded my opinions on it even more since I bought my son an iPod a few years ago. What specifically flames my ire is the ad nauseum request for your username and password.
What originally repelled me were it share restrictions. Which for all I know are long gone.
But I thought I was alone, out of touch, and cranky until I read today:
"Renewed aggressiveness from Microsoft could do the whole tech industry a lot of good. iTunes is as bloated and user-hostile as Outlook was in the '90s. That old embrace-and-extend mentality could give us an iTunes competitor that would import your playlists and sync your iPod without making you want to gouge your eyes out."
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