Horribly annoying that on their website, when I click play on a video then close the popup, the video keeps playing! I tried to view a few clips and they were all playing in the background. Had to re-open the video again and manually press the pause button to stop them.

Otherwise, it looks very similar to DoubleTwist but with the addition of syncing iOS devices. Wish it could drop some of the bloat (for example the torrent client) to make it more compelling. It is very tough though to make things more simplified.

I know everyone has their gripes with iTunes, but it is very tough to have an interface that is complex enough to combine local management of music, management of apps, music, and videos on a device, a store and still allow the user the power to make decisions about individual songs, etc.

I think Apple should diverge them and have the device syncing component as a separate program entirely, but tightly integrated so it can nab playlists, podcasts, etc. from iTunes.

I hear iTunes is horrible on Windows, but on Mac it's not too bad and I can't think of many ways they could really optimize it without stripping features that would piss off a lot of users.