MacComedy

Hundreds of early adopters thrilled with the discovery

Hundreds of Macintosh users who quickly downloaded Apple’s iTunes 2.0 for OS X when it was first released were excited to find it contained an Easter Egg which helped free up more hard drive space for users.

The installer, in addition to giving you a beautiful MP3 player, will also delete files, freeing up more hard drive space for the user.

Most users were impressed.

“iTunes 2.0 deleted 27 gigabytes of porn I didn’t even know I had!” said Power Mac G4/867 user Bill Houghman. “Thanks, Apple!”

“My hard drives were starting to fill up and I really didn’t want to take the time to go through them all, decide what was important and what wasn’t,” said Jim Uvela, a Power Mac G4/400 owner. “Little did I know that downloading iTunes [2.0] would just go through and randomly delete stuff! It’s like someone just gave me another 10 gigabyte hard drive!”

Unfortunately, the only ones that got to enjoy this Easter Egg were those who had multiple drives or multiple partitions. According to Apple, the company figured those people had the most useless files to be deleted. Not everyone was thrilled with that decision.

“Apple should be concerned with more than just the ‘power users’,” said Maggie Simon, an iMac 600 owner with only one drive volume. “Now I have to actually drag files to the trash myself? That sucks. Windows deletes random files all the time. Why can’t my Mac?”

Some were actually upset that the Easter Egg was there at all. We asked one Mac user why he wasn’t thankful for the new hard drive space.

“Are you guys nuts?” said the user, who wished to remain anonymous. “It deleted my files! I needed that stuff! Now get the hell out of my house! How’d you get in here, anyway?”

Others who thought the Easter Egg was a bad idea still accepted it.

“I didn’t want that second hard drive anyway,” said Robert Mueller.

“It’s really my own fault for partitioning my hard drive in the first place. Stupid Jake. Stupid, stupid!” said Jake Ataris.

The hidden bonus was only for early adopters. It was Apple’s way of thanking those users for being on the cutting edge of new software and Apple technology. iTunes 2.0 was replaced with iTunes 2.0.1 several days later, which no longer includes the added feature. Ryan Dunkin is upset.

“I knew I should have downloaded iTunes 2 the day it came out,” said Dunkin. “This always happens. I missed the whole ‘Install the OS X beta and have your Mac formatted’ thing too.”