The Internet has her panties in a bunch today over the iTunes 11 delay. The app that most of us rarely use will be a month late. It doesn't matter.

I, for one, almost never use iTunes on my iMac. When I want to play music, I use Alfred. Alfred uses iTunes, but I don't have to. iCloud has removed the need to sync with iTunes.1 iTunes just isn't the all-important digital hub that it once was.

Plus there's this — presumably Apple isn't happy with iTunes 11 as it sits, so they're waiting until they get it right. This is not a mission-critical app. Sure, the current version of iTunes sucks in a lot of ways. But it's sucked for a long time. There's no need to rush the replacement.

  1. The exceptions being my wife's beloved iPod shuffle, and loading movies onto our iPads before long trips. ↩