While I was off recruiting impressionable, young college students to come join Microsoft over the past two days, Apple announced a slew of updates, including a new version of iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have beaten iTunes 7 with the ugly stick. The best-looking new feature in the product seems oddly reminiscent of another media player, but I just can’t put my finger on which one…

In all seriousness, though, iTunes 7 does seem to have some nice features, but the UI has taken a major step backwards. I feel somewhat compelled to mimic its UI in iRooster, but it’ll hurt to do so. A lot.

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