I've had it with iTunes for a long time now. I understand the original concept of managing your music (for the iPod) but when the iPhone was introduced it was shoehorned in to create this burgeoning monstrosity.<p>It says it wants a new download of iTunes, some 50 megs, often asking for QuickTime which doesn't always relate, and it's awkward in general.<p>I'd be happy to lead (or help lead) an effort - assuming it's legal to do this - to break apart the phone management from the music management.<p>If so, anyone interested, and what would you like to see as a result? Or, if not, what do you forsee the obstacles as?<p>- t
In my experience iTunes isn't really necessary to manage the iPhone any more. At the beginning it was needed to set up a new phone but now all that is done in the setup process on the phone itself.<p>If you just want to use another player for your music why not just install one of the many iTunes replacements and just ignore the installed iTunes? I doubt the few MB of space or bandwidth to update every few months are a big enough hassle to warrant such an endeavour especially if you have to re-engineer it every time there's a major version update.