October 21st, 2003

So i downlaoded a copy of iTunes for windows yesterday and took it home on my trusty iPod. Installed it on my XP box and im impressed. Like Steve says on the presentation movie when he annouced iTunes for windows – its one of the most polised apps ive seen on windows. Simple and very nice on the eye.

Functionally it is exactly the same as iTunes on the mac – same setup, importing / burning / playlists etc etc exactly the same. Im still a bit partial to winamps small size and compactness but ill give iTunes a chance to change my mind.

I got to thinking last night about how they wrote it. You can download an iTunes SDK that shows you how to create visual plugins for it under windows, but im not 100% sure if the actual iTunes app would be written in visual studio 6. Im guessing apple still has its yellow box technology up its sleeve – yellow box was the name of the apple libraries that allowed for cross platform developemnt i.e. mac . windows. I think it would be awesome if later on they enabled developers to ‘hit a checkbox’ and compile their mac app for windows with minal effort. But then again – why would they want to create their app for windows when they know they are already using the best OS avaiable – *shrugs* Time will tell i guess.

On a side note, im still hunting around for a copy of panther. I really want to get it before i head overseas. I should also get my damn wwdc dvds in the next day or so, other people that went from OZ have already got theirs.

My goddamn rock solid ghetto shiznit name is Rectal Lobos.
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