Comments on: Just Thinking: iTunes Verbiage

By: joe

joe — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:12:25 +0000

Mine just says ‘Updating iPod’ also… I’ve got a 3G ‘pod and iTunes 6.0.2.

By: Justin Crittenden

Justin Crittenden — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:23:30 +0000

I just noticed, were you talking aabout that update message in iTunes itself or on the iPod?, cause in my iTunes 6.0.2 it just says “Updating iPod”…

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:34:20 +0000

I think ‘Tunes’ should be removed from the name. Call it ‘iMedia’ and the ‘iMedia Store’ or something like that.

And all those places where it says ‘copying songs’ when it it copying videos, it would be easier if they changed this to something generic, like ‘Copying media files to iPod’ or something like that.

By: Justin Crittenden

Justin Crittenden — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:51:41 +0000

I believe there is an open source project called “iTheater” if apple finds out and decides to change, it could pe a potential perfect name to purchase/purloin.. although its currently a competitor to Front row (and possiblt why its not names iTheater), they could merge the two in to one super iApp… though i do have to agree it should be “updating media on iPod”.. or for that matter just “Updating iPod” since it handles contacts, calendars, notes, and your files as well…

Marsky: originally the i was for internet, the first “iProduct” was the iMac, the thought being that it’s all you need to easily and quickly connect, “internet ready” if you will…

By: Marksy

Marksy — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:31:21 +0000

perfect :)

By: KenC

KenC — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:08:57 +0000

iTunes Media Store

By: Marksy

Marksy — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:49:55 +0000

Don’t know about you guys but… i prefer to leave out the “i”… Was funny and cleaver the first time Apple named their software like that…. but now its becoming silly…
iwork, ilife, imac, ibook, isight, itunes, imovie, ical, idvd, ichat, isync, iweb….

Somewhat strayed from the topic but, does the ‘i” stand for internet? or I as in first person? or something else…

At least they didnt name Front Row, iFront Row…

Getting back to the point, yeah I agree the iTunes store should have “music” removed – due to it selling video content such as TV (& movies soon?) aswell.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:52:12 +0000

I was really surprised that the “iTunes Music Store” didn’t become the “iTunes Store” in the last update, given the focus on video content.

For that matter, “iTunes” itself is now a limited misnomer. Perhaps iPlayer or iPlay would be more appropriate.

By: Marksy

Marksy — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:43:37 +0000

When you right-click on a video the contextual menu says “Show song file” – I think it should say “Show video file” (for mov/mp4 etc) or even “show file”…