iTunes is Horrible

I just wanted to briefly remind everyone that iTunes is a singularly horrible piece of junk. I was reminded of this recently when I was asked to once again upgrade iTunes by downloading the entire new application. Most programs (which is to say pretty much all of them) upgrade by sending you patches.

This avoids the hassle of downloading large files that take far longer to install than any other software you own. But no, iTunes - in a giant F-U to anyone on dialup - forces you to download the whole damn program to get those bug fixes and new features you will never use unless you own the rip-off iPhone.

So then you reinstall it and you find that shortcuts you put in your shortcut bar for iTunes no longer work and you have to set up a new shortcut. Funny how no other program I have ever used has this problem.

I almost forgot - if you get a corrupted podcast downloaded (as seems to happen frequently with Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from MPR), there appears to be no way to force it to download a corrected version.

Apple: Do you intentionally do everything wrong as part of some grander message from Fuhrer Jobs?