After dealing with obscenely long backups and some recent iTunes store issues, I become more and more thankful with each passing day that I don’t actually use the mess known as MobileMe.
The latest issue? The “Shopping Cart” functionality of iTunes. Since the inception of the App Store, the “Shopping Cart” has not been enabled for purchases of iPhone/iPod Touch applications. Why? Who knows. Someone at Apple has just been lazy I suppose.
It would appear that today that functionality has been enabled, but of course, it simply does not work. I want to update my applications. I want to see the improvements to Twitterific for myself (and not just read about them in a review on TUAW). Apple does not want to see this happen. I click the “Get Update” button in iTunes. iTunes teases me, telling me the item has been added to my cart. I rush to my cart to hit the “Buy Now” button, and…
Nothing. My cart is empty. I return to the App Store, clicking “Get Update” once more. iTunes whines as it tells me the item is already in my cart. Which cart? Surely they don’t mean the empty cart that my iTunes client actually presents me with?
As with all things Apple, this will most likely be tweaked and fixed within a few hours, then all will be forgiven. I will just have to sulk until then.
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