iTunes Music Store is fucking dumb
Nov. 27th, 2006 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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qxbear posted the latest very funny Kelly video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcidD2HFK8M&eurl= (Txt Msg Breakup) I decided I have to have this and Shoes.
OK iTunes...deep breath...first time I've purchased anything from there but hey, I do have an Apple ID from way back. OK iTunes has decided I'm in Japan, no I don't want to buy these in Yen, scrabble to find the location switcher - OK it's on the front page, done.
Add the tunes to my cart then....hey where's the Shopping Cart?
Hello? It's not like I'm a dumzo first time Net user and I know nothing about user interfaces, I design them as my job fer chrissakes...but how do I actually BUY something?!? No little shopping cart icon, no BUY HERE IDIOT button, nothing in the menus, nothing in the sidebar.
I know you know how much I love Apple but even for them this is crap UI design. Simply, crap.
EDIT: Got around it by switching to 1-click in the preferences and clicking on each song in turn (still kicked up an error about my perfectly OK card details though cos they introduced the security number since). Still no idea where they've hidden the shopping cart though, and a bitch cos I have to d/load each song in turn. Not user friendly.
qxbear posted the latest very funny Kelly video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcidD2HFK8M&eurl= (Txt Msg Breakup) I decided I have to have this and Shoes.OK iTunes...deep breath...first time I've purchased anything from there but hey, I do have an Apple ID from way back. OK iTunes has decided I'm in Japan, no I don't want to buy these in Yen, scrabble to find the location switcher - OK it's on the front page, done.
Add the tunes to my cart then....hey where's the Shopping Cart?
Hello? It's not like I'm a dumzo first time Net user and I know nothing about user interfaces, I design them as my job fer chrissakes...but how do I actually BUY something?!? No little shopping cart icon, no BUY HERE IDIOT button, nothing in the menus, nothing in the sidebar.
I know you know how much I love Apple but even for them this is crap UI design. Simply, crap.
EDIT: Got around it by switching to 1-click in the preferences and clicking on each song in turn (still kicked up an error about my perfectly OK card details though cos they introduced the security number since). Still no idea where they've hidden the shopping cart though, and a bitch cos I have to d/load each song in turn. Not user friendly.
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Date: 2006-11-28 05:26 pm (UTC)They have two ways of buying: "One-Click" and "shopping cart". (They paid Amazon.com for use of the "One-Click" technology.) You can change the way of buying in Preferences...
Like you, I hadn't checked the account information for a long time and it was really old.
I have run into some sites that do some checking on my IP address and won't accept a US credit card and I have to enter my Spanish one before I am allowed to buy something.
Chuck