Wednesday, June 30, 2010

iTunes 7????

I got this error message on my phone yesterday while trying to download the new iMovie app.

Isn't iTunes 7 about three years old now? I'm pretty sure the current version is 9.2. This is a very un-Apple error message.

[edit: as I read this again this morning, I realized that what the message is saying is that the terminology in iTunes 7 is different than in later versions. But since when does Apple care about support for legacy software, especially two full versions ago? And let's not forget that this error came on an iPhone running iOS4, which doesn't even support the original iPhone (iTunes 7 was the first version to support the iPhone). Granted, iOS4 does run on the iPhone 3G. But if iOS4 is smart enough to know to turn off certain features for the 3G, then shouldn't it also know which version of iTunes you're synching to?

At the very least, the error message is poorly written. A couple of well-placed quotation marks could have made this a lot more clear.]

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