I am just hoping that in Mountain Lion, iTunes is divided into two units; music and video! This will be in line with iOS 5 as well which has them separated!

iTunes is a content managing mess, if ever there was a dire need for it to be re-imagined, split into components, streamlined etc etc. it's now. It's the uber media manager that has become a gargantuan monster. Strange how it didnt manage to eat up the app store too on the mac...

iTunes has to focus again on music. A separate books and audiobooks application has to become the front end for books with its own store (kindle has it's own mac app but apple doesn't have a native ePub and book manager?), and QuickTime has to finally become a decent video manager and video store and become "videos".

I do not want a separate app for movies, TV shows, video podcasts, iTunes U videos and music videos, and then a separate app for music, audio podcasts, voice notes, ringtones, iTunes U audio, and audio books just to organize one device. Do we then get a separate app for syncing books and PDfs? Then a separate app for managing iOS apps? I want the iTunes hub to be a way to a quickly and convenient way to organize all my iDevice content at once.

Simply NO EXCUSE to make us wait for 10.8 for AirPlay Mirroring! Why does iOS get far earlier access than OS X?!

I can think of at least one reason.

This exactly.

Yeah well you would want that because that's what apple currently offers...

You missed the point. ITunes can still remain the syncing hub, albeit re-imagined to be more streamlined and intuitive in syncing i-devices. The content itself though is hardly consumable ad ornganisable anymore solely via iTunes. Of course you don't need a separate app for syncing books and PDFs, but you do need a separate app for using and managining them on the mac as with iBooks on iPad. Why would you not need a separate book library for your mac and you want the music manager to double up as a book manager too?

Ps. iTunes is neither quick nor convenient as is for syncing btw for most users, I have not met a single fairly novice user who doesn't dread syncing everything from photos to books to music to video over iTunes and doesn't get overwhelmed by it, with some also staying overwhelmed for the duration of their never flatenning learning curve. Sync all podcasts that contain this, or are older than, delete after this time, sync music from these playlists or manually manage, sync these albums not those, apps, blah blah, then the content to be synced becomes an ever complex to calculate amount and the iPad is reported full, then how to export back and forth from IOs, how to simply say, put these photos and vids from the iPad say to this folder on the mac... You think any of this is quick and convenient for people who are not geeks like us?

Then you've missed all my comments about what I do wish would change. Case in point I'd personally like to access my calander and contacts all within Mail as a single app, just like in Outlook. That's probably not going to happen... and I accept that.

You can't call yourself objective just because you always take a negative viewpoint. Reality doesn't work that way.

In your humble opininion I take a negative view point, but I am afraid you are mistaken there.

I am still waiting to hear what your objection is to a separate reader/library app that's much needed for os x, without having to bypass itunes as an organising and syncing interface, you missed my original point, and you are having me spell it out three times, thanks.

It's a fair request for more integration of mail/calendar/contacts and it's a reason why people opted for entourage/outlook, I don't see a need for such a tight integration but different strokes for diffent blokes I guess, I don't see why fundamentally one way is better than the other so I 've put my preference down to taste and personal quirks.

iBooks reader? When I have done nothing but wish that would happen? http://forums.appleinsider.com/showp...2&postcount=29