Date: 10/20/2003 05:18 AM
From: Shannon O'Connor (shannonnoelle@comcast.net)
Subject: ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us
When I heard Apple Computer had released iTunes for Windows, naturally I wanted to try it ("ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us," Oct. 16, 2003). I went to the company's homepage for the download and snickered at the iTunes-trumpeting headline: "Hell Freezes Over."
Everything went well with the download and installation, and the system worked fine, including the streaming radio channels. There was only one catch: I couldn't connect to the music store.
I sent an e-mail through the Apple website describing the trouble, and got two responses back. Both said that if I was running an Internet security program, firewall or proxy connection, I wouldn't be able to connect to the store. I would have to shut down the firewall.
Well, now it's obvious that these are Mac people, isn't it? No Windows user on a high-speed connection -- recommended for iTunes -- would dare leave his or her computer without a firewall long enough to download songs. The result is that iTunes for Windows isn't quite as available as Apple would have us believe.
Guess hell hasn't quite frozen over yet.
