iTunes 10 review

iTunes 10 is out, the first major release for years. After playing around with it for a week this is what I’ve noticed:

• Still does not use the standard front end API for OS X making it laggy and ugly.
• The slight UI overhaul makes it less of a mess. But it still is a mess to use.
• It has Ping, a social network exclusively about Music. Not very engaging though.

Please Mr Jobs and Mr Ive, please do a remake of iTunes soon. It really is a terrible user experience and it does not stand up to the quality of other Apple products. I love the store(s) but the app is crap.

Update: the Icon has caused quite a stir and is being widely critized. Steve Jobs has commented on it sucking saying: “we don’t think so”.