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OK - That All Makes Sense - Unlike Everything Else About Digital

Posted by Newey on January 12, 2017 at 21:15:45:
I'm not pointing a finger, just expressing frustration.

Why is digital so complex? All you want to do is play music, not design a financial processing system for a multi-national conglomerate.

I think it's due to the nature of computers. You don't "just push play".

You never, ever get to due that with any computer [at least not in my experience]. The first time I got a smart phone, it took weeks to get everything operational, and to this very day, there're things that still either don't function properly, or function at all.

Nothing in computer land ever works according to instructions. For example, iTunes. Should be simple and easy, cause its main purpose is to sell something to the most people possible.

But, unlike the instructions, and the way some people do it on their laptops or whatever, I get the following wacked-out results on my laptop:

1. Everytime I open the iTunes app on my laptop, I get a panel telling me that iTunes isn't my default player, and asking me whether I want to make the default. In fact, I made it the default when I first downloaded the app. And, every time I access the app, I always click on "yes" to make it the default. Makes no difference. The next time I enter iTunes, I get the same dumb question again.

2. Most people download music from the online itunes website, I think. But, for me, what comes up is just the ap stored on my laptop. The whole interface looks different and works differently, even tho I'm nevertheless still able to upload CD's to iTunes and then download them to a smart phone. But, it's totally different from what everyone else gets. Why? Who knows.

3. My DVD player worked flawlessly. Put a disk in, push play. Disk played. But, my Bluray player - full of all kinds of software running it - is another thing completely. If you don't push a specific sequence of buttons - it freezes. If you push the wrong button at the wrong time, it freezes. The only way to unfreeze it is to actually plug the power plug out of the wall. I'd say that freezing is actually what it does best, and seems to be designed to do most of the time. Same thing with many computers [maybe all of them].

And, that's the way computers are. Every time they make the tiniest, most trivial change to the systems at work, everything goes haywire, and nothing works, and they have to go crazy to fix and re-fix things. They then send out email instructions as either new solutions or temporary work-arounds. Those never work either - EVER. They always either leave something out, or they get something wrong, and they then have to come to individual desks and walk us through getting things to work.

And, all of these are just tiny, scratching-the-surface examples. My own examples with my own computers of computer craziness would fill many volumes of thick books.

There's no "just push play" in computer land.