Why Harold and the Purple Crayon is better than iTunes 8

So as many people know Apple has recently released a new iTunes (Version 8).


It received much applause for innovative new features such as Genius, new visualizer, new layouts and so on. Currently iTunes has passed even RealPlayer in market share making it one of the most popular media players on the planet.

In other news Harold and the Purple Crayon is listed on Amazon.com Sales Rank: #342 in Books. This book was hailed as "Crockett Johnson's understated tribute to the imagination". But how can a kid story be better than iTunes, the most popular media player?

Harold and the Purple Crayon is the illest thing since the Wu Tang Clan.

iTunes, on the other hand, has become popular because of (supposedly) what it has. Popularity ≠ "Betterness"

How is this possible then? Lets take a look at the new features:

1. Install/Update from older version: Basically instead of using a update system it requires a whole unistall/reinstall, which is implemented badly. On top of this it asks to install Safari, another unwanted and unneeded part of the update process. Even worse, when I install it causes everything besides the installer to crash, even explorer.

2. Genius: A good idea, but stolen and not as well implemented. Pandora did this before and it does it better. About half of my music cannot be put in to a Genius playlist and once it is in a playlist more than half does not relate to the song clicked. Another thing that annoyed me (but can easily be hidden) is the Genius sidebar. I personally don't like adds in my software, or adds that try to sell me music I already have.

3. Visualizer: The new iTunes visualizer is defiantly a step up from what it was. Except I had the same visualizer over a year ago as a plugin from an independent developer. Today its the same visualizer but unlike the computer I had three years years ago with half the specs which ran the visualizer perfectly, today it doesn't run at a viewable speed.


iTunes is nothing more than a good looking, slightly bloated, over hyped media player. Harold and the Purple Crayon is a literary classic, unparalleled in plot, artistic significance and pure imagination.

.....you can call me weird but you can't call me wrong.