iTunes and “other” MP3 players

Today I thought I would boot up my laptop to Windows Vista. (Just so that I could be reminded on how much I loath Micro$oft.) After waiting like 5 minutes to finally get to the point were I could use Windows, it prompted me for updates.  Yeah, usual windows stuff.  So, I updated and it restarted.  After the restart (and waiting another 5 minutes) it yet again prompted me for updates.  Wow! Windows needs updates, who would have thought?!  This time it was Vista service pack 1.  Anyway, after and hour and 6 minutes, Vista is up and running.

Later in the day I was adding some tracks to my MP3 player via Rhapsody (terrible software by the way) and a dialog box popped up asking to update iTunes.  I had forgotten that I had iTunes installed!  (I used to have an “old” ipod.  Junk now…won’t recharge…replaceable battery…don’t get me started!!!).  I let iTunes update.  To shorten this all up…iTunes DOESN’T work with other MP3 players besides ipods and iphones!  Wow!  Here is Mac (Apple) and their proprietary stuff again!!!

Why must we “conform” to “big business” and all that.  Sure we don’t HAVE to but it is pretty hard not to.  Example being my Rhapsody account.  The idea of subscribing to a music service is AWESOME.  I can listen to all the music I want, at anytime, anywhere…oh! there’s the catch!…only ANYWHERE if you use their software (Windows only) to upload to an MP3 player…hence why I booted up Windows today.

See, if you suffer through all my ranting it will eventually make sense (mostly, kinda, probably not)