Perhaps I should clarify, in "more demanding" I was thinking of various reports of "missing" features and such. Some people care about some features and some people don't, hence all the various choices of software which essentially does the same thing (be it play music or any other type of software).

As far as crashing your computer, yes, one should reasonably expect new software, even if free, not to do that. While this may or may not be widespread, it's certainly not just a few isolated incidents. Apple is going to lose some goodwill because of it. Only more time will tell just how many people end up using the iTunes software on Windows.

BTW I doubt it was necessarily lack of developer experience, although that may be part of the issue in the case of it being large and resource-hungry. More likely most of the problems are from just from not enough testing. I'm sure they were eager to have this software out there in the wake of new competitors and in front of the holiday season. It was rushed. This has it's good points and bad points, and again only time will tell how it works out for them.


[This message has been edited by CrazyOne (edited 10-18-2003).]