Bought an iPad2. Have not used Apple products in years. Am very frustrated with the assumptions and insistences that iTunes places on you. You can’t sync your individual components to more than one computer. I tried to sync to a different computer than the first one I did this with and lost all my installed apps and data. Could never restore the data. Now, every time iTunes alerts me to something (the most recent is a scary and strange alert “”This computer is no longer authorized for apps that are installed on the iPad” (which is not true, it’s the only computer I’ve been using) I get panicked. I’m not sure if the shit with iTunes facism is really worth the iPad. As a result, I just avoid connecting it to my computer at all.
I guess I’m not surprised. I suspect that iTunes works in such a way as to avoid conflicts and crashes on the various devices. As a result, there has to be very little flexibility and everyone has to fit into quite specific ways of doing things. My guess is that this is why Macs are more stable, but PCs are not. PCs allow more flexibility and are much more open. But as a result, all sorts of crap gets on your system, messing up your registry, and takes your computer out of the hands of those who envisioned its stable operation.
I’m just not sure which is better.
(My sync is done and I haven’t lost everything. This time. Whew.)
