Re: Apple prepping 64-bit, full-screen iTunes 10.4 and iWork updates - Page 2

Same here, except the Mac Mini I played a lot with plugins. In my experience it's the same problem I had with Firefox. At a specific amount of plugins FF gets slower and more and more unstable.
Problem isn't that pronounced with Safari and the new extensions.

Edit: This was meant for crashes. I experienced hiccups and beach balls when switching between multiple applications or on heavy load processing syncs etc.

You obviously misunderstand. They DO make it for 10.6 (Heck, they're still supporting 10.5). So the app contains both 64 and 32 bit code (and PPC as well). It's just that for some unexplained reason it only runs 64 bit on 10.7 but not 10.6.

Sorry, but that's a demonstrably absurd thing to say. Most things run great on a modern Windows 7 set-up. iTunes is a rare exception.

Go and use the Zune app on Windows to see how a media player/database app can be done. The difference between that and iTunes is like going from blu-ray to 20th generation copy pirate VHS.

They make iTunes 10.4 for 10.6? The whole point of this discussion was that it was only available on Lion...Make up your mind. Is the 10.4 on 10.6 Cocoa? I upgraded all my machines before it was released It is entirely possible there is no difference between iTunes 10.3 and iTunes 10.4 on Snow Leopard.

WHile the #1 cause of crashes on my Mac is iTunes, it still crashes very rarely considering I have it running 99.9% of the time my Mac is on (maybe once everyone couple of months). Usually when it crashes, it's if I'm dowloading lots of songs off the store.

Apple should bite the bullet and write their applications in .NET so Windows users can have "native" applications that will give them the best user experience they can have. After all, do Mac users not expect Microsoft to re-write their applications using Objective-C/Cocoa? Besides, look what the Windows users have done for Apple. Sure, moving to Intel made it possible for people to get a Mac because they can also run Windows, but if Apple had kept iTunes Mac-only they would not be sitting on billions right now.

Actually your solution is quite simple. Dump your piece of sh*t windoze turd of a computer and get one that's easy to use, provides much greater value, and much greater usability and fun!

Only because it's a better language in every imaginable way.


They'd be sitting on billions of computers instead of billions of handhelds...


That's uncalled for. iTunes for Windows is absolute trash and hasn't a thing to do with Windows' problems.

Seriously, GFY - the problem exists because windows is such crap. And .NET is a floating turd as well. As to your statement that apple should somehow thank windows users is absolute lunacy. That is like a cripple telling Apple that they should just build them new legs. It is windows users that should thank apple for allowing them to play in the same sandbox. Grow up and get a mac.

lol! Spend five minutes on the Internet and you can find all kinds of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth! Big deal! Flash: people love to complain on the Internet - news at 11!

What a riot...

And people who don't have problems tend to never complain or even comment - so your point is worthless. I have iTunes on Windows and Mac - and up until Lion, iTunes ran better on Windows 7 and Server 2008 (Windows Home Server 2011) than it did on my Mac's. Now with 10.7 iTunes is a speed as it is on my Windows boxes - no more spinning beach ball of death, even when my iPhone or iPad is plugged in. Finally!

Safari is also much more responsive too.

And don't overlook that you can now resize windows from any side or corner. Finally!

Hmmmm - I didn't realize that Zune app really helped Zune sales. I must have been mistaken. BTW - while we're talking about how some apps aren't that great, lets talk about the incredibly bloated, buggy, counter-intuitive POS called MSFT Word... Seriously, how retarded do you have to be to keep piling more and more crap into this bloated turd?

ROFLOL, ROFLOL, ROFLOL - you didn't really say "Or better still, read what Paul Thurrot thinks of it"???? - That guy is a hack and a complete FK'N moron! You just lost any credibility whatsoever in trying to make any kind of argument. Quit whining and get a computer that works! Why should the whole world dumb down to windoze?

For some reason, I can't seem to update my iPhone Apps on iTunes anymore. Just updated to 10.4, and now it doesn't work.

Anyone else have this issue?

Yes, I am having this same issue. I have rebooted and tried multiple times tonight to update apps, but the downloads just never happen. I guess it could be related to a ton of people downloading Lion all day today, but I'm thinking there is a weird bug in 10.4. I guess we will see what happens. Hopefully Apple will get on this asap.

I actually just found out it has been happening for a bit longer than that. Like for a couple of days now.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15667922

That kinda throws the whole "Lion or iTunes 10.4 to blame" out the window.

Sounds good. Thanks for sharing the info. I hadn't heard anything about this.

I fixed my problem, sorry.

never mind - i got it to work. sorry for the wasted post.

Any chance we'll see Office for Mac 2011 updated to support full-screen, versions and resume, and perhaps Adobe CS5 to support full-screen?

why do i always get the "can't open in 64bit mode" warning the first time i open 10.4? i'm on snow leopard, and there's no "open in 32bit mode" checkbox in the get info....?

help? it's a bit annoying

iTunes 10.4 has just been released for the following platforms:
OS X 10.5 (supporting all CPUs supported by 10.5, including PPC, x86, and x86_64).
OS X 10.6 (supporting all CPUs supported by 10.6, including x86 and x86_64).
OS X 10.7.

Of these, apparently it's only 64-bit when it's running on OS X 10.7. And this is despite the fact that the Cocoa API has had feature-parity for operation in both 64-bit and 32-bit ever since OS X 10.5.

Of course, in Lion they needed to switch to at least a hybrid Cocoa scheme, because there wouldn't be any Carbon API available to take advantage of Lion's new fullscreen feature.

Now, there's nothing to say that they didn't necessarily switch to Cocoa throughout all supported architectures, but only bothered to make a 64-bit build for Lion. Certainly, the Lion build was a separate build due to the inclusion of the fullscreen mode that cannot appear anywhere else. And since Lion only exists for 64-bit CPU, there's no point in making a 32-bit Lion build.

However, even if they did choose to make a 64-bit build available for the older OSes, they would still have needed to make the 32-bit build available too, because 32-bit CPUs exist for each of the older OSes.

Maybe they figured that a 3-architecture Universal Binary (PPC, x86 Leopard/Snow Leopard, x86_64 Lion) was already taking up too much disk space/download bandwidth, and it would simply be wasteful to include any additional 64 bit builds that weren't absolutely necessary to ensure adequate functionality.

Also, note that in order to have access to the fullscreen API in Lion, they must be using XCode 4.x (or some confidential Apple-internal equivalent of it), granting access to the new Lion APIs. However, in order to target Leopard PPC users, they must have also been using the XCode 3.x (or some confidential Apple-internal equivalent of it), because XCode 4.x no longer supports compiling PPC code. So they may very well have two divergent code sets, one for use in XCode 3.x, and one for use in XCode 4.x. In fact, perhaps they have three divergent code sets, once you include the Windows version.

I had the same problem, that was my original post above, but I got it to work. I deleted iTunes from the app folder then downloaded iTunes itself from apple.com not via software updates and that fixed it now it works on my snow leopard. Took a while to install, maybe 10-20 min, but I let it sit and it eventually installed and I was good to to go. Maybe it's a glitch/bug Apple didn't know about. I'm getting 1 or 2 bugs with it on Snow Leop but hope it will be okay and it mostly works. Think I'll start saving d/l's versions in case a newer version isn't right (for me).

Good luck.

FWIW, I experienced a noticeable speed improvement in iTunes 10.4 on my iMac. Much, much snappier. Likes.

Apple are the first to moan if someone doesn't follow the Mac development ideas, their PC apps need to be developed properly

That's up to Microsoft and Adobe, respectively.

The latter will charge you $5,000 for that update, though, so get ready to pony up for CS5.6.

That is a very good argument. I don't know if .NET is the the right tool as I'm not a developer, but fully agree that if MS rewrites their software so should Apple instead of some simple porting.

To me, you are making an assumption as you don't have all the facts. Perhaps this user has a very large library? If yours is small iTunes will be fast. Mine used to be, but now it's over 350GB and has its issues.

I'm running iTunes on a fast Mac (MacPro 2010, 8 cores, stuffed with RAM and all) but iTunes remains unresponsive at times. Can't find the cause. I'm good at housekeeping, don't install junkware (almost completely limited to Apple software) yet iTunes is still unresponsive at times. Or downright slow.

Perhaps the people you know that have iTunes running on Windows have SSD? I'm still using HDD, and definitely need to migrate to SSD. Supposedly Aperture flies on SSD, but strangely enough that software runs just fine on a HDD.

Bloody hell am I glad to read this! I'm on a fast Mac Pro, stuffed and all, but dislike the unresponsiveness quite often while editing tags. I am however keeping the media on a HDD. Moving my 350+GB lib to SSD is going to be a bit expensive. But if that's what it takes to get a snappy iTunes I'll do that in a heartbeat.