iTunes Store 4+

It’s been a few years since I’ve had a I phone and boy have I missed it.
The ease of use and ability to get access to everything from one location is so nice. And the ability to pay for things with a touch of a button makes life so much better, without having to dig out my wallet or go searching for my wallet or check book to find a routing number.
The fact that a lot of things cost money that on some phones are free is a little disturbing because I like using Zedge for my ringtones. But for the IPhone you have to pay for it but it should be a permanent feature once I pay and download it.
That’s the one nice part. And it can be saved to the cloud for later use on another phone I think. Or hope lol.
Either way. Thank you for letting me go on. Michael.

Shopping for movies and TV shows has become a complete and utter disaster. My shopping experience with app Tv app is so horrible. Now you can’t filter or decipher between the movies and TV shows any longer. They’re all lumped in together and you have to dig through them like a big five dollar bin. They are more movies, movie specials and movie selections in the store now then there are TV shows, you literally have to search for each individual TV show that you’re looking for because chances are it’s not just going to be out there in the store any longer. No more wishlist, for those shows your keeping your eye on! The store is mainly made up of movies and movie deals and within those deals you’ll See season passes, top charting TV shows but outside of that there’s no dedicated page for just television shows anymore. They’re all lumped in together. This has made the shopping experience with Apple so frustrating. Irritating and time-consuming. Used to be a quick easy experience now you pretty much have to bunker in to dig through the bin of everything cram together. I personally enjoyed the division between movies and TV shows in the iTunes Store. I mean you guys even offered division in the wishlist, for the beginning! Please fix this issue for all of us who love shopping with Apple 🙏🏾.

My music library frequently populates with duplicates, and if I accidentally delete anything from my library that isn’t duplicated it becomes a total chore to re-download it again. Often, I can find the song (anywhere besides my purchased list, which, you know, is kind of baffling design) and see it is purchased, but no prompt allows me to download it. They are more than happy to offer me a subscription to Apple Music or play a 15 second sample of a song I have purchased, but not to download it. The only recourse I’ve found is, confusingly, to attempt to purchase the song again—it shows up to purchase in the store at full price—and then finally complete my globe-spanning quest when a prompt comes up recognizing I own the song. If I had deleted something and forgotten about it, I might never find it again.

Like many apple products, iTunes is easy to navigate (or be navigated through by the invisible hand of the designers) if you don’t have much experience with the nitty gritty of computers, but quickly becomes a cheery-faced, smooth-walled nightmare landscape where you have no agency to solve your own problems the moment you step outside the expected user experience. The only thing keeping me here is the sunk cost I have in my music library.