Genius? More like imbecile
There's one thing that bothers me most about Apple right now; their 'genius' function in iTunes.
I would perfectly understand the company's motives, if the feature were used solely in conjunction with the online music store. After all, many other companies have released software whose sole purpose is to suggest music that's stylistically similar to that which is playing. It's a cool feature, and Apple could use it to sell more songs, I realise that, because its a business.
However, what doesn't really work, is why they decided to use this feature to suggest songs from your library that go with other songs in your library. When it comes to my music selection, I'm quite confident with my knowledge of all the artists and songs in it. I don't feel I need a feature that will tell me what songs I like when I was the one to put every song in it. Strangely enough, I only put in songs I enjoy.
So who would use this feature? We're talking about the people who do their best to fill up their mp3 player with as many songs as possible without even listening to most of it. They borrow, download and take every record they can to add another few gigabytes to their collection. If we're only talking about people who's music collection is all legal too, then we're cutting that figure even lower. My point is, there aren't that many.
And why did Apple decide that they should help these guys out? I think they should be punished for not listening to the music they have! I do agree that this is such a strong argument for such a minor issue [Some may even say a 'non issue'] but it does annoy me that there are shallow people who would actually use this feature, when anyone relatively sane would know what songs they liked in their own collections!
I would perfectly understand the company's motives, if the feature were used solely in conjunction with the online music store. After all, many other companies have released software whose sole purpose is to suggest music that's stylistically similar to that which is playing. It's a cool feature, and Apple could use it to sell more songs, I realise that, because its a business.
However, what doesn't really work, is why they decided to use this feature to suggest songs from your library that go with other songs in your library. When it comes to my music selection, I'm quite confident with my knowledge of all the artists and songs in it. I don't feel I need a feature that will tell me what songs I like when I was the one to put every song in it. Strangely enough, I only put in songs I enjoy.
So who would use this feature? We're talking about the people who do their best to fill up their mp3 player with as many songs as possible without even listening to most of it. They borrow, download and take every record they can to add another few gigabytes to their collection. If we're only talking about people who's music collection is all legal too, then we're cutting that figure even lower. My point is, there aren't that many.
And why did Apple decide that they should help these guys out? I think they should be punished for not listening to the music they have! I do agree that this is such a strong argument for such a minor issue [Some may even say a 'non issue'] but it does annoy me that there are shallow people who would actually use this feature, when anyone relatively sane would know what songs they liked in their own collections!
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