Apple are retarded!

God damn I hate Apple. I’ve never been a fan of them. The computers that we used to use in school were so awkward and ugly and backward when compared to Windows PCs. Sure the OS in them these days is a fluid and lovely app. Sure the company innovated the portable music market with the 3rd and 4th Gen iPods and later, to a lesser extent, the phone market with their iPone.

So with such hardware, why do they insist on proprietary limited, protectionist and down-right backward software support? PC’s play anything. Good third party non-Apple brand hardware will play anything. My iPhone won’t.

I can’t import mpeg4 files to it. I can’t import them to iTunes. Why? Who fucking knows? What error message do I get? None. All I see is a circle with a diagonal line through it! What does this mean? Where’s the user feedback? Is it a case of the files being supported but that I’m not importing them the right way or does the circle with line indicate no support at all? Who knows? God damn Apple and there un-usable iTunes.

A search in the iTunes help for ‘movies’ returns a result about watching home movies on an Apple TV. What the hell is an Apple TV? A search for ‘movies’ in the iPhone help returns no results! Apple are an exercise in frustration.

A Windows PC will allow you to drag and drop what ever you want into what ever logical app or piece of hardware and it will work. Or at the very least, it will tell you what you need to download for it to work or what format you will need.

Apple and their iTunes and iPhone are testing my patience. I can’t be arsed with any more Google searches on the subject. I’m going to pack for Berlin.