After getting back from the German market on Thursday I wanted to listen, for some reason, to some songs from Carmina Burana. I think my parents have got a CD of it somewhere. Anyway, I couldn't find any MP3s of it lying around, so I thought I'd give Apple's new iTunes thing a go. I was perfectly prepared to spend a few quid on some music, so that I could listen to it right now.
I don't know what the ‘i’ stands for in iTunes, but it certainly isn't ‘intelligent’, and neither is it ‘international’. After failing to find any useful information on the website, I reaslised that to use this thing I would have to download a Windows program. I happened to have my work laptop at home, so I booted into the rarely-used Windows XP installation and started downloading. How can they have made this thing 19Mb in size? And I have to pay for the bandwidth to get this before I can even look at what music is available.
What really pissed me off in the end was that after the bloody thing had downloaded, I clicked on it and told it where I lived, and all it did was tell me that I couldn't have any music because I don't live in the USA. That bastard Jobs should have his keyboard smashed for this.