Apple, Stop Being so Helpful
I’m a pretty huge Apple fan, but the programmers in Cupertino can make some strange choices at times. “natural” scrolling in OSX Lion, a new iPad iTunes UI that has fewer features than the interface it replaces, and a tendency to break 3rd party software or accessaries at every update.
This last couple months I’ve been struggling with an odd iCloud issue. I love how new song purchases made on one device automatically transferred to all my iStuff. Pretty nice right? The problem arrises when you find that free iTunes download of the week wasn’t worth the electrons you inconvenienced to acquire it.
Delete the song out of iTunes and, before you can blink, a different device syncs it right back. Delete it off that device first and iTunes cheerfully copies the song over to its mobile buddy. These iThings share MP3s so fast BitTorrent should take notes!
The best solution I’ve found (other than flat-out disabling the option to sync my entire library) is to disconnect all your devices from the netwrok, delete the song off each device, hope that you didn’t forget one, and then fire the WiFi back up. Not an unsurmountable task, but surprisingly tedious just to delete a song.
Apple, stop being so helpful!
