2 words - Media Monkey

I recently blew away my music and movie collection and restored from backup, but I realized in the process I was missing some of the content that was newer than my archive, but still on my iPod touch. When I tried to browse it as a folder like I could my old iPod, it was not available so I went looking for an easy / free solution to get content off my iPod. Enter Media Monkey, which I had used in the past and really like. I remembered using it to update my collection in the past and it did not dissapoint. I installed the free version and was able to view my iPod with no problems and export the files I needed. It's always nice when things work! Now can someone please tell me when Apple will bring iTunes up to the same level as the third party packages?