Why iTunes hides it's Removable drive from explorer?

Very strange behaviour (looks like a paranoia - to restrict the using of iPod directly (manualy or by 3d party software))!
If not launch iTunes - I can see the Removable drive IPOD in explorer and work with it (for example to copy iTunes to another computer).
But as iTunes runs - it hide the Removable drive and there is no way to restore it exept unload iTunes and unplug-plug iPod.
Is it ususal behaviour or something wrong with my device?

Why iTunes hides it's Removable drive from explorer?
It doesn't. Plug in the iPod. It shows up in Windows Explorer (and the desktop) just fine.
As soon as iTunes is done updating it, it is ejected and it is removed. All hardware, when removed, is no longer available in Windows Explorer.
You have mistaken what an iPod is.
The iPod was designed to play music.
iTunes was designed to play music (and later adapted) to be the interface for the iPod.
iTunes does not try to hide anything. As I stated before, iTunes is designed to make it very, very simple to use the iPod. Plug it in, wait a few minutes for it to update and unplug it. That's it.
Why should the iPod stay mounted on the the desktop when it is no longer in use?
If you start using the iPod for other functions (as a disk drive), you start making it less simple/more complicated.
Now you have plug it in, wait for it to mount add or delete files you want and eject it.
If iTunes was going to "hide" it, either the function would not be included and/or it would not be well documented on how to enable it.
this fact does make imposible for other software to discover and work with iPod.
Then using your example, Windows Media Player is full of bugs because it will not run it on Mac OS X.
Also, it will not run on my car radio or work on my fax machine.
It's not a bug if you do not make an application or hardware work with other stuff you are not concerned with.
A bug is something that is not working correctly when it is supposed to.

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CoastalMaineBird wrote:
The HELP text for INSERT VI into a SubPanel says this:
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1.. Why do I have to REMOVE the VI?
2... Does it matter if I RUN the VI before INSERTING, or INSERT before RUNNING?
I would say that the help is poorly phrased. It's quite easy to demonstrate that the when a VI stops running, the VIs in its subpanels are not removed automatically (see the example). I'm assuming that what was meant here is "until the VI that contains the SP goes idle or out of scope", which is not how most people would interpet "stop". As long as the VI stays in run mode, even if it's not actually running, the FP stays in the SP unless you remove it.
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