I could care less about the silly icon drama. I’m more peeved with the way it just crashed after less than 3 hours of playing music. Great job on the QA there Steve Jobs. Seriously, did anyone at Apple bother trying this product out before release?
At least it saved whatever work it was doing the first time I started it up, with the “updating library” shtuff, and didn’t have to repeat that part. Kind of surprising, considering how easy it is to lose information you’ve entered by hand to update your library.
UPDATE: Ping seems to have gotten little QA time. Basic things like searching for an artist doesn’t work. Nor have the bothered to update any of their support webpages to include iTunes 10 as a version. Heck, they haven’t even added the iPad to the list of supported devices for an iTunes store support request. Talk about doing a terrible job.
UPDATE2: Perhaps it’s not that search is ‘broken’, so much as it is being limited to ‘approved’ artists in a deceptive manner. So broken philosophically, but probably working in so much as “being evil” is by design with Steve Jobs.
UPDATE3: This version still has the horrible lack of responsiveness issues that every other version for the PC has shown. I can double click on a track, and it will take 35-55 seconds for the current song to stop playing.
