HT2204 Signing up for iTunes - how non-intuitive is this process?

In signing up for iTunes, there is no common sense intuitiveness about the process. Two particular gripes:
- When choosing a password, the password requirements are quite finicky and stringent, and yet there is no guide about this at the point of signup. It is necessary to go hunting the net for this information. It would be very easy to provide a popup - in fact, there is a popup telling you that you can't use the password you chose, why not just include the necessary information right there?
- The data entry fields are very dead and non-responsive - there is no flashing cursor to tell you where you are on the page. It's like talking to a corpse to try to sign up for iTunes.
Hopefully someone in Apple might address these issues. Hmmmm...

I guess I'm not surprised to hear that. I have tended to find the company monolithic and unresponsive to user views, though not a lot more so than Microsoft. Doesn't stop one from hoping, of course, even if the hope is vain.
I guess I am a little surprised though that no-one within Apple itself has realized these deficiencies and they have been allowed to continue unaddressed.

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