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Apple updates Itunes for IOS 4.3, fixes security bugs
THE FRUIT THEMED Itunes 10.2 is ready for download, fixing a number of security holes as well as preparing Mac OS X for the arrival of IOS 4.3 next week.
Itunes 10.2 will sync with Iphone, Ipad and Ipod Touch device running the upgraded IOS 4.3 from 11 March. IOS 4.3 reportedly includes a faster Safari browser and Airplay media streaming. It also has improved Itunes Home Sharing, if you like showing off to your fanboi friends by playing music on your PC or Mac wirelessly with your Iphone.
There are also a number of security fixes included with the download that patch up Itunes vulnerabilities on the Vole's Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the more serious looking holes is in the Webkit browser component, which apparently has multiple memory corruption issues that could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Webkit is the engine that browsers like Safari and Chrome use to render webpages, and indeed, many of the holes the update fixes were discovered by Google's Chrome web browser engineers.
Resource-hungry Itunes generally runs fine on Apple Macs, but this update probably won't improve its shoddy performance on PCs. Better Windows performance with Itunes is something we would really like to see with an Itunes update, but we're not going to hold our breath waiting for Apple to deliver it. µ
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Sure you can use the OS to transfer music from your computer to your portable music player, but how did the music get on your computer in the first place?
I use iTunes to rip the CDs I buy into a lossless format. I find it handy that iTunes will download metadata about them automatically and sometimes even find the album art for me. You have to use a program like iTunes to rip music (or download it), so you might as well use that software to manage your database of music too.
Maybe there are better programs out there, particularly for pirated music; but iTunes works, it is free, and it is good enough to handle my 500 GB music collection with acceptable speed.
I plug my generic music player in and it opens up a directory viewer. I drag music files to or from it, create directories to put them in if I want; all done using the standard GUI for such things. Simple.
Why would I want to install special software to carry out this simplest of tasks? I mean, even if that software *didnt* always completely suck? And Itunes more so than most.
Lets face it, if its on version 10.something and its still a piece of bloated crap, then its not like its ever going to change.
You'd think it'd be the opposite: Apple would make iTunes on Windows perform admirably because there are strictly superior alternatives to it. The only reason someone should suffer the use of iTunes is to buy media or transfer music to their device if other software is not available.
Glad to know its not just me, Itunes on Windows is a dog for everybody else.