{"id":3461,"date":"2010-04-24T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2010-04-24T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:27:01","slug":"itunes-and-quicktime-is-bad-at-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/itunes-and-quicktime-is-bad-at-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes and Quicktime is Bad at Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the deal with this?<\/p>\n<p>When I double-click a .mov file, it takes 30+ seconds for Quicktime to power up and play the file.<\/p>\n<p>When I plug my iPhone into my computer, it takes 2+ minutes to backup the iPhone every time&#8230; and THEN it starts syncing.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes is DOG SLOW to do anything and everything. It is USELESS as a player of anything because I can&#8217;t even freaking scroll down a list without frustration.<\/p>\n<p>It never was a very good podcast player. I just switched back to the open source, free, Juice podcast player (an app that hasn&#8217;t been updated in 5 years!) and it&#8217;s sooo much better.<\/p>\n<p>The interface is still completely non-intuitive. While I watch other people using it, their mouths always say &#8220;it&#8217;s so easy!&#8221; but the frustration in their fingers and eyes tell me they are lying.<\/p>\n<p>I just reinstalled windows due to a hard drive crash. My computer was lighting fast at everything as I was reinstalling apps until I came to reinstalling iTunes. Fucking boat anchor of an application.<\/p>\n<p>The ONLY reason I use iTunes is to sync my iPhone to Outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the deal with this? When I double-click a .mov file, it takes 30+ seconds for Quicktime to power up and play the file. When I plug my iPhone into my computer, it takes 2+ minutes to backup the iPhone every time&#8230; and THEN it starts syncing. iTunes is DOG SLOW to do anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}