Why oh why was it fixed when it wasn't broken..the user interface

Question

This is a serious error on Apples part to alter the way this critical program operates
its like taking away critical controls from an automobile...like the steering wheel
Its that bad its at the level like Microsoft would have done.
It may operate with all the same features...but where are they...not on the iTunes desktop
where one could surf iTunes to look at, get, explore
big mistake & an even bigger one not to listen to customers...
Bruce L. Farrar

Answer 1

Steve
Sorry I just cant see how you can compare iTunes 10.7 &  iTunes 11 - yuo are in the minority  !!
Everyone I speak to has the same view on this:
That 11 hasnt the same user interface & controlability.For me this is fundamental in the way I used iTunes to "surf" what was available from what I already had.I find the way I have to go through things in a list poor to unusable. OK Apple may want to have the same interface accrooss the whole product platform - but why the capability of a Mac with a omplete keyboard & larger screen allows for more possibilities than say an iPhone which I reackong any user will realise & accept...basically the iTunes on mac platform has been dumbed down & is now far less capable
The search "engine" that hasnt got fields to select to narrow down or focus a search is just riduculous & it doesnt work that well as whats comes back has to be searched through again.
Using iTunes 10.7 & before was an "adventure" into music or material you knew & you found things you didnt know about & to do this was easy & enjoyable. Ifound previosly I could find a single track out there quickly & also explore.
Whats happened is fundamentally bad - lets give a comparison - say if the whole user interface of the MacOS or write was altered, made significantly different...everyday tasks that you could do before had to be re learnt or just couldnt be done.
Even Microsoft are carefull about making changes to the way things work & the way that a user interfaces with this...one carefull step at a time OK Microsoft "things" have to recieve this type of carefull scrutiny & adjustment - but Microsoft onthe whole take thier customers with them. Learning point that Apple have yet to realise & learn from
Previous to this from Lion to Mountain Lion there was Frontrow a simple little program that gave a feature that me for one used (& enjoyed) regularly.....on the Mac doing something important...take a break, relax & enjoy some music...one press of the remote & you had all you music & videos there to be used...like a big iPod...really ver good. Finished relaxing or taking a break get back to work just where you left off, an impressive feature that was taken awy & replaced with NOTHING.
So for me at least the usability & functionallity of the Apple experience has deteriorated...for no appreciable gain....for just a commonality of controls accross the products.
Its called "change for changes sake" & in this case the customers werent consulted they were totally ignored in being left with something that is retrograde.
The very fact that I am here with others making comment is proof postive that the situation is a definate backwards step. I just hope that for Apple its a "blip" i.e. an error that will realised & corrected...
I have been using Apple products from 1989...I am not a Microsoft refugeee or reluctant convert who is throwing mud..just the opposite in my family we have:
4 Macbook Pros,
an iMac,
4 iPods,
4 iPhones
Apple TV
all backed up ona time capsule.
We have lived through the bad times & good...I realise that Steve Jobs cant come back...but I am sure he would have listed & then gone back to the teams & forced the change backs through.