I don’t know anyone who doesn’t agree that Apple’s workhorse media application iTunes doesn’t need to be fixed. It’s slow, clunky and suffers by embodying a vision of how people manage and interact with their media that’s becoming more and more painfully antiquated every day. Over at Macworld Kirk McElhearn argues that what’s needed is a server version of the software, something that can centrally manage all of a household’s media. He sketches a picture of how such a device would work that’s logical but probably never going to happen — mostly because it’s disk-based. I’m pretty sure Apple has no further interest in helping people manage their media through the use of hard disks located in the home. The next truly significant revision of iTunes, whether in server form or not, will surely be in the cloud. Read the article here.
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