Fixing iTunes: To the iCloud!Any use-case sufficiently different than your own is indistinguishable from bloat. iTunes was originally based on SoundJam MP, an MP3 player and sync app Apple acquired in 2000. The launch of iTunes in 2001, alongside the iPod and, eventually, the iPhone, drove Apple's resurgence and led to the greatest financial comeback in the history of... history. Yet our greatest strengths are often our greatest weaknesses, and while iTunes continues to serve more people in more ways than ever before, it's now become the poster app for Apple's "software problems". So, what can be done about it? The impossible job I've previously called the job iTunes.app has been given "impossible". There are simply too many different use-cases, for too many different services and devices, for any single app to elegantly handle them all. Because hundreds of millions people alone depend on use cases that end with an offline iPod syncing via USB to a Windows PC, and involve huge libraries of content download...<br clear='all'/>
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