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Upgrade hassle

This is a tiny peeve. As I’ve written before I quite like using iTunes to manage my music—enough that I’m on a long migratory path from various flavors of Linux, back to Windows, on my way toward a someday-Mac.

iTunes seems like a reasonably sophisticated application, and is self-aware enough that it can inform me when a software update is available. So why is it that in order to install an update for iTunes, I have to exit, switch to my web browser, download and run an installer, and re-agree to various license agreements? Is updating iTunes similarly cumbersome on the Mac?

  1. Don’t upgrade.
    — Kieran    Mar 25, 08:56 AM    #
  2. I clicked update, agree, and it downloaded, then clicked restart. I thought the agreement was for the security update, but I didn’t really read it.
    — erin    Mar 25, 09:02 AM    #
  3. Uh-oh, Erin. This means I have to report you to the End User License Agreement police.
    — Alan Schussman    Mar 25, 10:05 AM    #
  4. must be a windows thing. upgrading any apple software on the mac is very simple.

    finish your migratory path. you’ll be much happier.

    the latest version of iTunes is primarily to allow users to transfer music to iPod shuffles. without the upgrade shuffles aren’t recognized by iTunes, as i discovered when trying to put music on my shuffle before upgrading.
    — lane    Mar 25, 11:47 AM    #
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