Given Apple’s skeumorphism fetish of late, making onscreen calendars into leather-trimmed nonsense and a game-center home screen taken from a Las Vegas backwater casino and so on, I suppose we should all just be glad that the new iTunes 11 isn’t built around a visual metaphor of a 1970s high-end turntable. Count your blessings, etc.
But all the other problems with the new iTunes aside -- and even some of the pleasant things -- I simply do not understand why, in 2012, when I’ve purchased a book on iTunes for use in iBooks I can’t read the damn thing on my computer. I buy an e-book on Kindle and its almost guaranteed I can read it on my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer if that’s the nearest appliance in a pinch. I try to read an iBooks e-book and I’m immediately told to go find another device, sucker.
This is why I don’t buy iBooks anymore, even if I can’t buy Kindle books directly from my iPad Kindle reader. I’d jump through flaming e-hoops to purchase the Kindle version of a book rather than the Apple version, since Amazon (for all its faults) will at least let me read the book on more than on or two damn devices.
I still loooooove Apple hardware and OS X, but the software increasingly makes me wonder why I stick around for this. Just try and use Pages or Numbers in an actual professional capacity. It's even worse than trying to play movies on a program perplexingly still named "tunes."
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