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Originally Posted by ProgrammerJoe
iTunes is bloatware on Windows, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. (Need verification on the Mac end of things) Useful bloatware, mind, but bloatware nonetheless. And the day that the Desktop is entirely cut out of the transfer equation is the day I will become "happy soul."
Now, does anyone think that the SDK will be able to expand on that Camera Connecting USB port? Or anyone working outside the SDK kit, for that matter?
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The "iTunes is bloatware" argument used to work when most people only had 512Mb RAM, since opening a decent-sized iTunes library with album art on could easily gobble up 250Mb on a PC. When most new computers are now sold with 2Gb, 3Gb, 4Gb+ RAM, 250Mb doesn't matter anymore.
Anyway, here's how performance of iTunes (with a pretty large library) versus Firefox (only eight tabs open, two of them YouTube videos) on OSX 10.6. Combined, these two programs only use 1/8 of the total system RAM.
