iTunes has been nagging me for weeks to upgrade to 7.0.2 or whatever. Finally I relent to the nagging and download and install the new version. What a pain. You would think that apple, being a company that LOVES to brag about how simple their products are to use, would make an installer for iTunes that simply grabs the new stuff and applies it to you current version. However, this is not the case.

I’ve got to hit the apple website and download a whopping 35MB file, just to get iTunes from version 7.0.1 to 7.0.2. On top of that, The new installer apparently doesn’t check my installer preferences from like the last 10 times I have installed iTunes, and I’ve got to click thru a bunch of dialogs. Now this really isn’t all that bad, except when it’s all done, I’ve got a bunch of useless crap that I need to clean up:

1. Once again, the stupid Quicktime tray icon is running and I have to once again disable it.
2. There is a new Quicktime icon on my desktop that I have to delete
3. There is a Quicktime icon in my quick launch bar that I have to remove

Now this may sound all whiny and crybaby-ish but it really GRINDS MY GEARS that I have to go thru this little dance every damned time I install even the tiniest upgrade to iTunes. I can’t stop using iTunes because my nano would pretty much be useless, so I’m stuck with this lovely pile of doo-doo that apple constantly updates.

Sometimes I long for the good olde days of Winamp 2.6 and my trusty Diamond Rio PMP300. Good times, Good Times.