[widebody911]

Apparently I'm too old.

My wife gave me an iPod a few years ago, so of course I had to install iTunes. I don't know what went wrong, but as soon as I installed it, my PC blew up - had to wipe it and do a fresh install. She has bugged me for years to use the thing, as my M3 has an iPod cord.

Fine. I'll try it again.

After dicking with it for an hour or so, it still doesn't want to work (Win7-x64) - iTunes simply doesn't see the device. When I plugged it in the first time it disconnected all of my USB devices (keyboard, mouse and wifi) so I had to hard-reset.

This UI is the biggest lop of 5hit since... well, I don't know when. And don't get me started on all of the crap it leaves behind even after you un-install it. And for some reason, it wants me to shut down my proxy service before the components will uninstall. And it really, really wants to change all your file associations. It's like herpes for your PC.

I spend 8 - 16 hours a day troubleshooting computers; I don't want to do it at home, too.

Thanks Apple, but I don't feel the need to get into your walled garden that badly. I own some Apple stock, but I will ever willingly purchase an Apple product.