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Originally Posted by jswinden
To each their own. I personally think it is slow and sluggish. Every time you try to sync even one file to an iDevice iTunes insists on doing a complete backup of the iDevice, even if it just did one 20 seconds earlier. It is good at organizing media, but they need to work on the syncing capabilities/flaws, especially WiFi syncing which occasionally works but at a snails pace. I know a lot of folks who simply refuse to use iTunes, other than to perhaps occasionally back up their device. I wouldn't mind the constant backups if it didn't take 5 to 10 minutes to do it each time. I've got less than 16GB on my iPad mini Retina, and even when attached via USB cable to a fast Mac the backups take forever. Rarely, if ever does the WiFi sync work correctly, and when it does it takes 20+ minutes.  |
I remember when backing up older devices like the iphone 3g and 4, the backup used to take quite a while but I noticed that since I've been using the lightning cable, all my devices (iphone 5s, Ipad mini and ipod touch 5th gen) back up really quickly, in less than a minute. Data transfer is also quick, quicker than transfering via drag and drop to android devices. I don't use the wifi sync. It might also be the system I'm using. I doubt it's particulalry fast (i5 windows laptop) but it is a lot faster than my previous laptop.
itunes does what it should do, quickly, but I just find it a bit cumbersome. I'd much prefer to have a file system and to just drag and drop and organise things in my own way.