*takes quick break to slap self for gratuitous iUsage*

anyway, i’ve never used iTunes for any length of time as my default media player, but i have poked around in it a few times. It’s ok, and Cover Flow is quite the shnazz, but for me it offers nothing in terms of usability; i’m perfectly happy to use the list view, since i don’t remember songs by which album they’re on and what it looks like.
Overall, I’m sure it’s easy to use but I just don’t care for it. What was apple thinking when they forgot to put a Stop button in there??? Why am I forced to use only one corner of the window to resize it (which i also hate about MacOS)?? Why is the time slider not right up next to the playback controls? Why do they think they have to design it to look like a Mac program rather than a well-behaved Windows one? (cuz they’re all elitists)
Plus it brings with it a smattering of windows services that I don’t require to be running. oh, and finally, a lack of some actually useful features that I find in another media player whose name I won’t mention, so as to not taint your mind regarding my comments.

iPod usability: I simply don’t find it as simple and self-explanatory as a lot of people do. i HATE the click wheel. it gives me “carpal tunnel” in my thumb joints. besides, who thought up the idea that turning a wheel clockwise clearly means to move down a list, and the other way means to move up? It makes no sense; it’s not intuitive. Rather, to me it makes sense to push UP to move up a list, and vice-versa; and right or left to change menus, rather than up or center-click.
It does not have a clearly defined on/off switch. Again I ask, who thought this up? the vast majority of electronics out there have an obvious means of turning the device on or off: therefore, why change things up? just to confuse all the people that know how to work all their other devices? or just for the sake of change? come on.
lastly (cuz it’s all i can think of at the moment), I don’t like being locked in to using a certain program to manage my player. (for this reason, I also wouldn’t buy a Zune.) I prefer the freedom of good-old USB Mass Storage Device dragging-and-dropping of files.