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The only reason iTunes seems to be essential is because there is almost no competition on OSX. Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to most Windows based software.

I only use Skype to video chat with my daughters and it could be easily swapped over to Google chat + Video.

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> Its a fairly horrible music player / media organizer compared to most Windows based software.

Y'know people like to say this, but I think it's simply untrue. MediaMonkey/Winamp/Songbird/Media Jukebox/FooBar all have the advange they're more flexible & have greater format support, but for simply listing and playing and managing your music, iTunes is far nicer.

All music managers are horrible to some extent, I am left wondering why.

I'm not talking about just iTunes and Skype, though. I can think of several consumer programs that have become more bloated with worse UIs over time- AIM, Ad-Aware, Windows Media Player, Firefox...

It seems rather inevitable.

Netscape was a classic too. I think Windows Explorer gets a nod as well.

What do you dislike about Firefox's UI? I could never go back from Firefox 4 to Firefox 2 or 3.

The windows ui got a bit worse(no menubar by default right)

The orange menu button. I find it distracting.

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