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Our Blogs Core Dump Enough of the MobileMe moaning Minnies
Our Blogs Core Dump Enough of the MobileMe moaning Minnies | Enough of the MobileMe moaning Minnies |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 08 August 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 4 It seems to me that these individuals have become so used to add-on items such as browser toolbars being packaged with applications that they instinctively classify anything outside the main program as being crapware. What's iTunes' purpose? Basically, it rips and plays music, downloads content from the iTunes Store, and syncs data (primarily, but not exclusively music and videos) on the computer with iPods and iPhones. That syncing may be done via a USB cable, but in the case of an iPhone it can also happen via MobileMe - hence the control panel. iTunes also needs Bonjour, because that's how it finds other copies of iTunes on the LAN for sharing playlists, and it needs Apple Mobile Device Support, because that's how it detects that an iPod touch or iPhone has been plugged in. Think about what would happen if Apple didn't include these supporting services when iTunes is installed: someone would buy an iPhone or iPod touch, plug it into their computer and... nothing. So they'd install Apple Mobile Device Support, and then wonder why updates from Outlook aren't being pushed to the iPhone. Oh, there's no MobileMe support, so let's mess around installing it now. What else can go wrong in this scenario? Please read on. |
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