Comment: It would be more surprising if Apple had not discussed a post-iTunes world<div class="feat-image">
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<p>While Apple has denied a report that it was planning to <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/11/apple-itunes-music-downloads/" target="_blank">stop selling music downloads[/url] in either two years or 3-4 years, the denial to
<a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/5/11/11660982/apple-itunes-music-downloads-not-true" target="_blank">Re/code[/url] was somewhat vague.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Apple rep Tom Neumayr </span><span class="s1">wouldn’t expand on [
the ‘not true’] comment, except to make it clear that he was responding to both timelines proposed in today’s story from Digital Music News.</span></p>
<p>And really, nobody should be surprised if the broader report is true: that Apple has discussed how and when it might exit the music download business …</p>
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Comment: It would be more surprising if Apple had not discussed a post-iTunes world
