iTunes. It's slow, it's clunky, and it's unreliable at times. Unfortunately, we are forced to use this program by Apple. Is there a solution to make iTunes better? There most certainly is! While there being many different ways iTunes could be better, the focus today is why iTunes should be a cloud app.
First, you may ask yourself " What is this cloud thing he is writing about?". Well it's simple, a cloud app is basically an average program that you use except it can all be done over the internet.A popular cloud app is Google docs, which has the basic parts of any Word processing program, all in your browser. It even saves your documents online, too! This concept doesn't limit it to only being programs, though. Many websites offer the ability to save files online to retrieve somewhere else. Using the cloud is becoming more popular now because of its benefits.
Back on topic now, iTunes has been receiving updates for years now. Apple is constantly adding features to make it more complex as time goes on. Slowly the program size gets larger, and iTunes goes slower because it has to complete more tasks. Wouldn't it be a great idea for iTunes to be a cloud app?
iTunes would definitely be faster if you could use it on your browser. Another reason it may improve is that you will never lose your songs, apps, movies, etc. due to hard drive/computer problems. It would also allow for more flexibilty as you could go on your account on several devices. Of course, you could also save a bunch of hard drive space by converting iTunes to a cloud app. iTunes would pretty much be a much better program if Apple allowed it to be a cloud app.
iTunes becoming a cloud app would definitely be a step in the right direction for cloud apps. In fact, it could be a huge achievment in internet history. If this happened, it might be a great example for other software programmers to convert their programs to be cloud apps.
Meh, my Itunes is weird at times, whether I'm on a computer, or my itouch. Sometimes it would be fast, other times it would be very slow for no reason.
Knowing the basic functionality of clouds from an in-house Xen cloud running Debian Linux at my job and from the hosting of DSiPaint, I would have to respectfully disagree.
iTunes has several functions, among these syncing data with Apple devices and downloading music purchases. I will cover both of these in detail as to why they would not work...
Currently, you can sync your Apple device with iTunes to back it up in case the flash memory or mini-HD fail. You can also transfer images between the device and the computer. All of this can be done with no Internet connection. Having to backup devices online could take a tremendous amount of time because of the potentially gigabytes of data.
Originally, iTunes had the primary purpose of downloading purchased music to the computer to sync with an iPod, share over a LAN, or burn to CD. If all of this went online, their entire business model would have to change to be more like ShoutCast, RealMedia, or Pandora. No one would be able to have offline media because everything would be streamed to the end-user. Two people in a LAN wanting to view the same media (such as in an office environment) would both have to download the content from the cloud at Internet speeds instead of having a local copy to share on the LAN at 100Mb/s.
A cloud is little more than a virtualized abstraction layer between the computer hardware and its operating system(s), so cloud storage still uses hard disk space, just in a virtual server environment. By keeping everyone's media in a cloud instead of distributed, there are potentially thousands of copies of the media on the servers at Apple. This quickly eats up space, requiring an entire infrastructure upgrade at Apple, leading to potential monthly fees for server space usage.
I disagree, My ITunes is extremely fast, I have timed and it sync's my IPod Touch in 6.23 seconds. Are you sure its not you'r computer or connection thats the problem? But also, cloud would be nice.