Too many reasons to list but here are a few. The number one reason that just killed iTunes for me was after I ripped a few AAC files using iTunes, the program will not recognize them and will not add them to the library even though every other program plays them fine. I had to go back and rip it LAME MP3 just to make iTunes work.
It wants to update constantly. The updates are not updates they are rebuilds of the program. I don’t want to download a 70mb file when it would have been accomplished in 5mb. I wasn’t asked to install Bonjour or the dotMac crap. I disable it from connecting to the internet yet it still connects. I have multiple computers and would like to use my iPod on more than one. I don’t use the store but it is always trying to take me to it. I like Apple fine but iTunes is not for me and I can’t wait until they get some real competition. Maybe then Apple will go back to being good ole Apple.
I hate to bash Apple because I actually do like the company, this piece of software however is what I dislike. And part of the reason I never got the iPhone, as much as I like it (several friends have them) it’s ridiculous that you have to jailbreak a phone that you own just to get it to function like a phone because Apple wants to keep it on a leash. If you don’t want people to use it however they like, don’t sell the damn thing, keep it for yourself.
So what’s the alternative to iTunes?