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20070531 Thursday May 31, 2007
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I just bought my first music from iTunes Store. Yes, now. At last. Of course it is iTunes Plus. Sounds nice.

I had not bought music there since I do not want to encourage DRM in any form. Yes, circumvention of Apple's DRM is quite easy, but still. Kind of a purist, me, there. Well.

As a feedback to the store UI, there were two things which confused me:

  • The marking of songs and albums as available in Plus format is subtle. Which is what I like. However for someone new to Plus (and who isn't?), I was looking for a confirmation in my shopping basket that the album I was about to buy indeed and truly is Plus. Clicking on the '+' icon just gave an error, command-I was not working. Hmm. Maybe that error, once fixed, would reveal what i was looking for.
  • I could not find the shopping basket! Yes, I know it's next to the store link in the list to the left. But I had opened the store in a separate window and did not see the main window any more. Being an experienced internet shopper, I was looking for some kind of shopping basket icon or checkout link on the store pages. But nothing! I wonder how many amazon users stumble across this one. My mother certainly will be unable to buy at iTunes store.
The rest of the shopping then went smoothly.

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