Why did Apple take MIDI support out of QuickTime 10?

MIDI may not be a prevalent standard, but there's still quite a lot of music written in it. Why would Apple drop it? It seems like a giant departure away from Apple's usual philosophy of "everything just works." If I wanted to use an OS where I had to download an entire application every time I needed a new CODEC, I'd still be using Windows! This was just a bad idea.

Understood, but that seems kludgy and seems to fly in the face of the entire Apple "simplify" philosophy. There's no reason for Apple to drop a standard that encompasses billions of existing files. The whole point of MacOS and iOS is that they just work.

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Yeah, Apple is distancing themselves from Google (you may have noticed the maps app in iOS 6 is now an Apple product, no longer Google). But Google does have their own YouTube app available in the app store, which you can download for free. Don't think there's any reason to trash your phone.

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Why??
Will I receive my money?

Go here:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
and follow the instructions to report the issue to the iTunes Store.
Regards.

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Okay, last years "Big Thing" was iOS 7 and the iPhone 5 series. They gave us iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, you get the gist.
Now a year later they take back iPhoto. What gives? Is there a reason for this not working with iOS 8? I lost family videos I made in the phone and never got them over to my Mac before updating. Yea my mistake, just ticked that they took this feature from us.

Understood, but that seems kludgy and seems to fly in the face of the entire Apple "simplify" philosophy. There's no reason for Apple to drop a standard that encompasses billions of existing files. The whole point of MacOS and iOS is that they just work.

Why did Apple take away the ability to shuffle videos?

A firmware update about a year ago took this feature from my 5th gen video iPod; I was hoping other iPods didn't suffer from the same affliction, but lo and behold, my 3rd gen Nano does the same thing. If you set Shuffle to "Songs" or "Albums", the iPod will only play one video in a playlist, then stop. If you turn Shuffle off, and put Repeat to "All" you can play all the videos in a playlist, but only in order.
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodnano.html

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I make CDs for use in my carr so it is valuable to me to know which version of a song is on iTunes: either AIFF, or mp3. The previous versions offered these specs for a category as a column listing in the library but the latest version doesn't; if you don't remember where you last had it set you have to check in prefs., then hit "import settings" which is annoying when you're compiling for a CD.
Why did they take that category out (under "view options") or am I wrong and you can tell me where I can find it?
Thanks

Dear loeezy,
Sorry you felt offended by my post. That was not my intent and I never suggested you were stupid.
Your post was a bit confusing because you were describing unrelated things.
I was simply trying to explain a few things to help you out. Seems it did not work.
My apologies.
Please check out exactly the directions I wrote about "import settings". I believe you will find the active button, "import settings" next to "ask to import CD" which is next to the words "when you import a CD:" under the heading, "General" in the pull-down menu, Preferences.
Yes, I understand what the Import Settings are and how to change them.
However, Import Settings has nothing to do with burning a CD or selecting file types for adding to a playlist.
Since it is not needed for making a playlist or burning a CD, I don't understand why it would "annoying".
If you are burning a data or MP3 CD and only want specific file types, then you need to know what format of the files you add to a playlist are but that still has no relevance to what your current Import Settings are.
And no, iTunes will NOT "convert the file as needed" if you want one song in both formats.
If you are burning an audio CD, the result is one format. Audio CD.
That is why I wrote, "If you are burning an audio CD the format is irrelevant", because iTunes will convert AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC & Apple Lossless to audio CD format.
Next time read the question thoroughly, make sure you do have the right version, and test what the the person is saying
I did read thoroughly and understand exactly what you wrote.
In the end, seems all you really needed was how to view the Kind column.
Seems you have sorted out your issue so good luck.

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Some websites need Western ISO 8859-1 character set to run properly and you have taken it away in favour of "other(including Western)", now the site does not work properly. Why did you take it out and can you please put it back.

ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 should be equivalent. Can you provide an example of a page that doesn't display properly?
If you have to manually select a character encoding to view the page correctly, then the site is broken and you should notify its owner that it needs be fixed. Websites specify the character encoding in one of two ways:
* [http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS | W3C]
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Apple why did you take the Sites folder with my website in it? Nobody helps!

Since upgrading to Mavericks I lost my local website folder that used to be in the Sites folder!
Error: Can't connect, check your info! Oh Apple why did you take it? "H E L P P L E A S E!"

Thank you Barney-15E
I have no clue why this is or why I am getting this error in Mavericks. All I have is a local website folder in the Sites folder using Dreamweaver CS4 to update my files, working perfect on my other drive running 10.6.8 . Why I cant update and get the error above is the reason I am posting here. (and several other spots)
You said:
"First off, FTP is disabled in Mavericks, which is why you likely cannot FTP into your local Mac--why are you ftp'ing to the Mac you are working on?"
You said:
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These are user-to-user forums where everyday folk (volunteers) post questions and offer answers (technical support) to each other.None of us users take part in any of Apple's decisions and/or why they do the things that do. Your best bet would be to post your concerns over on the Product Feedback website.

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"Why did apple set a 90 day lock out to apple devices?"
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Mateenah wrote:
… Why did they leave these things out? …
a) DVD is SDef only - HDef is for more than 6-7 years the thing
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Why did apple support Windows better than Mac in iCloud?

chewy cabeza wrote:
Why did apple support Windows better than Mac in iCloud?
From your point of view and the framing of your question, Apple does indeed support WIndows better than Mac for the limited issue of iCloud.
chewy cabeza wrote:
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Confirmation emails from Apple regarding a purchase from the iTunes Store can take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours.
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iTunes Store: Purchasing and managing auto-renewing subscriptions

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Why did Apple take MIDI support out of QuickTime 10?

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