As a Windows user, I often wonder if I have the energy required to wriggle myself free of Vista and make a move (or, rather, a return — I was a genuine devotee during the 80s and early 90s) to Macintosh, but there are so many occasions I find myself annoyed by missing and idiotic features on the iPhone, in Safari and particularly in iTunes, that I can’t bring myself to do it.

Put simply, iTunes on Windows is awful — slow, esoteric, unintuitive, resource hungry, and with a non-standard UI that is not just unfamiliar but also hangs at the slightest provocation — and I’d wager it dissuades more people than it converts. It needs a ground up rewrite.