Habitually Good

Apple may be designing the best hardware on the planet currently, but when it comes to software, they still have a long way to go. My hate for iTunes has been documented before. So, it is no surprise that I am finding myself writing again against iTunes.

I was installing iTunes recently on a computer (which is a 64 bit Windows 7 machine), and on Apple’s website, there is a special link for 64 bit Windows. So, I downloaded that. The file that was downloaded is called “iTunes64Setup.exe”. Now, I fully expect this to be a 64 bit app.

When I run the installer, this is what I see by default:

Notice how the destination folder is Program Files (x86). For those who don’t know what this is – it is the default location where 32 bit programs running on 64 bit Windows are installed.

Now two things are possible:

• Either the “64-bit” version of iTunes is not really 64 bit – so it’s being installed in the right place.
• Or, the developers at Apple didn’t even bother to configure their installer to install iTunes in the right place.

Either way, this is very irritating.

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