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Title: The iTunes break up: What will happen to our favorite features? Post by: HCK on April 16, 2019, 04:05:11 pm The iTunes break up: What will happen to our favorite features?
<article> <section class="page"> <p>For a company that maintains multiple major operating systems, has its own productivity suite, and even developed one of the most popular web browsers in use, there was a time that the piece of software most identified with Apple was also perhaps the one most viewed as a necessary evil.</p><p>I speak, of course, of iTunes.</p><p>Yes, the music-playing/device syncing/media-buying/podcast-listening (and so much more) app was at one time not only a brand unto itself, but also an almost universal experience, as one of the few pieces of Apple software that was ported to Windows computers.</p><p>But iTunes may not have much time left on its clock. In recent days, <a href="https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1114261872029700098" rel="nofollow">speculation[/url] has <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/10/macos-10-15-itunes-standalone-apps/" rel="nofollow">hinted[/url] that the upcoming version of macOS will instead feature separate apps for music, podcasts, TV, and so on, likely based on their iOS counterparts. But those apps lack a lot of iTunes's more powerful features.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3388936/the-itunes-break-up-what-will-happen-to-our-favorite-features.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: The iTunes break up: What will happen to our favorite features? (https://www.macworld.com/article/3388936/the-itunes-break-up-what-will-happen-to-our-favorite-features.html#tk.rss_all) |