Why Is Apple Getting Rid Of iTunes?
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2019
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It was recently revealed at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference that iTunes would no longer exist in macOS Catalina. Instead, most of iTunes functionality would be broken up between three different apps: Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV. In a very controversial, but necessary move. And this has left many people wondering why Apple would get rid of iTunes at all. I mean, why not continue calling the application iTunes instead of simply Music? After all, iTunes has accumulated name recognition and has a very important place in Apple’s history. Why would they not capitalize on the iTunes brand? Also, isn’t Apple all about keeping things simple and not fragmenting their services? So why are they turning one application, iTunes, into three different apps? Some people may consider that to be unnecessarily complicated. But in this video we’re going to explore why breaking up and ending iTunes was the best decision Apple could’ve made.
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iTunes is hella nostalgic. Takes me right back to being 13 when everyone was paying 1.29 per song.... those days went by so fast man
During those days I was getting those songs for free and downloading them to my iPod ba o and iPod shuffle from UA-cam and a mp3/link converter. Never paid a dollar for a song because of this hack. It was so awesome. Been listening to music this way since 2009. My cousin used to do it for me cuz back then I didn’t even know how to use a damn computer 😂💀 finally he showed me in like 2013 how to do it myself and have been doing it since I stopped in 2016 when I got Apple Music ❤️
J C Hahahaha man I remember when iPods were a thing.. I think I had the iPod 2 and a shuffle, what a throwback lol
@@SliceofBread123 music is life
I remember when the songs were 0.99, then they said they raised it to 1.29 "temporarily", yeah right.
@@Micg51 it’s not a big price jump, lucky it didn’t go to $2. Don’t know why they picked just a 30¢ hike actually
3:47 "By 2015, iTunes had become a bloated shadow of its former self. It was slow, resource-heavy, and difficult to navigate."
Me too, iTunes. Me too.
Not really it runs fine on my PC.
not if you still have an ipod classic
@@calidude1114 Miss the joke did we?
@@carolyna9742 I do. It will show in Finder. Who knows, it will probably also appear in the Music app, and maybe even the TV app.
😍
Explain the $999 stand
the who and what now?? NO FUCKING WAY! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
it made of vibranium
Why is this such a meme lol
It sounds unintuitive, but when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The problem was that monitors needed a sturdy way to be positioned.
Rene Ritchie did a really good video on it pal
Glad I can still buy my music. I look at it like buy my music VS leasing my music. I like to own my shit not rent.
At least you can, for me the store is such a mess that I'm giving up
Diego Alvarez there’s not a human being who isn’t able to buy their music, you’re acting like you’re in some kind of exclusive club lol if you want to pay full price for every album you listen to them so be it. For what I listen to it’s cheaper to have Apple Music for the rest of my life than to pay for every album I want
Bailey Crawly some people like to put it on CDs for better sound quality on expensive sound systems like me
@@baileycrawly Sometimes i buy albums but mostly I just buy the songs I want to listen to and get to keep them. I don't get streaming. You don't own anything when you stream. Would rather purchase my music and always have it. And can even pass it on to my son.Streaming can be shut down and then you have nothing.
If i had to buy all the music i listen to id be broke
I only use iTunes as a music player. I haven't experienced any slow performance due to it being bloated...
i use it for podcasts and ripping cds so i agree. i hate this whole rip it up and start again mentality
It's laggy as hell, I'm glad they made a seperate music app
maladjustedtv same I have had absolutely no problem with it other than the fact that it’s a little complicated to navigate at first
I prefer them separating it tbh
RayPosSiable as long as the new music app can do all the same things as the music side of iTunes then I’m fine with it
I am so glad I can still buy music on iTunes instead of just streaming it you answer my question thank you
same here im glad i can still buy music i despise streaming music because the quality will depend on how ur internet is it all depends on the data cap ur internet company is doing and so on but i can keep that song i bought on my account forever where as a streaming service if i forget to renew my subscription i have no access to that music anymore
@@billyhatcher643 yeah there aren't many of us buying music anymore. But it's the way to go. this way we can have it at any time
You could download music in apple music and also on Spotify, if you want to play them offline
Jose G I’m broke as shit lol
Mike Laymon yes
To save 11 minutes of your life:
iTunes became too bloated
Segmenting Music / Podcast / TV for individual app optimization
thx
You forgot just one, the competition.
Steam does what iTunes does minus my phone backups. I currently don’t have good internet and backing my phone up to my computer is my best and fastest option. Where can I do that now?
@@ONEIL311 iMazing application for Mac can backup your iPhone or iPad to your computer. I've got 3 peoples iPads and my iPhone all backed up on my computer using this App, it does cost, but not too much.
Too bad cuz I used them up.
Before the video starts.
Me: apple TV and apple stream
They’re not, it’s just going to have a new name and User interface, separated into Podcasts and Music I think
Johnny Wynn terrible
Music store is not down, all I needed to know. I know in the current climate, streaming seems like a better option but I really love collecting CD albums.
Apple didn't create iTunes from scratch. They bought an existing piece of software called SoundJam MP.
David Frischknecht Exactly!
And someone pretending to educate people and not knowing this is a bozo (like Steve Jobs would have said)
Dude, he said all of the other apps were built from the ground up. The Music, podcast, TV and other apps are what he’s talking about.
you should have mentioned NAPSTER while mentioning the history of iTunes
Lol, my Napster library from 1999 have 4000 songs and did not cost me a cent.
Napster: best thing EVER!!! So many rare and unusual tunes available. I'd have paid to download each - iTunes (and other apps) just didn't carry the rare stuff.
Corvette Dude I recall having to download several versions of the same song so that I could find the best version that didn’t have drop outs, distorted cymbals etc.
Their was a third party downloader that would download from multiple sources…lol. I remember hitting 20- 30 songs at a time. I have 4 hard drives (1TB worth) of downloads…. Guess I need a 1tb ssd to move them too.
Windows users are apparently unaffected.
Esquivel Lopez-Meza itunes in PC is slow AF in my pc :(
SUPER HIPER PRO RANDOM Mines is quicker on my pc.
@@ismaelgarcia6609 your pc need to get replaced my 2013 laptop could ran it with no problem
Think I’ll go back to my PC.
“Hello Windows my old friend” 🎼🎼🎼
The store has been getting worse for me. Album art does show most of the time and I can't even edit my wishlist anymore.
I still use it personally, especially when I’m syncing my iPod nano so I can listen without using my phone’s battery.
That's what I do! iPod nano (8th Generation (7th, 2015 update)) 16GB
I have a red iPod Shuffle, which is for playing music when I bike/run (clips to my collar); a black iPod Shuffle for podcasts and use the same as the red one. I have an old Nano sitting in dock my kitchen speaker; an old Nano in a dock in my stereo in my studio; and the newest Nano I use in the car for podcasts, because while I can play my music playlists from the iPhone via Bluetooth to the car stereo, I cannot play my podcast playlist on the phone. The new Nano is also useful on long bike trips because it has a lot more capacity than the Shuffles, which I use for day rides. I haven't yet found a need for the Airpods.
I still use a nano, and use a ITunes. I never let it update just Incase.
Glad i'm not the only one, i still have my purple ipod nano that i listen to in my car via a cassette hookup and while cooking in the house via a speaker. I have an old car, but it died and i had to get a new one and now i have no way to play my nano in the car which is driving me crazy.
@@tweetygirl818 Hi, does your new car have an auxiliary port? You can buy an auxiliary cord, plug one end in the earphone jack on the nano, the other in the AUX port. That's how I listen to my ipod 80gb and nano in the car.
Video uploaded 6 minutes ago. The length of it is 11 minutes. There are already dislikes. -_-
Im certain there are people either employed to down vote vids, or just do it because they're annoying cunts...
I myself like or dislike a video while watching it. Sometimes you know in first 20 seconds whether you're gonna like the video or not.
@@mr_greendevil nobody cares
@@Anonymous-tq9zp if no body cares why does his comment has a reply? use brain also sometimes along with apple products. good for health i can say.
video is 11 minutes long and uploaded 6 mins ago, that means some one can watch 6 minutes of a 11 minutes video which is more than 50% and that is enough to decide whether you like it or not, BTW someone doesnt like a video doesnt mean the video is bad or we are against the presenter, its just they didnt like the video thats it.
I'm actually blown away because for about a year, I've been wishing that iTunes would be split up into different apps. I never thought it would ever happen, but can't be any more happy that it is. Having all those different services in one app was more than unnecessary.
Nothing has been the same since Steve Jobs died
@Sfgpkpk cant agree more
Not even Steve Jobs himself...
Sfgpkpk This is a whole lie. Apple has become more successful.
Matthew Dykstra indeed
Matthew Dykstra In this case, I disagree. iTunes was always garbage.
I think Apple should have kept iTunes as a separate launcher (for all music apps, and all the new apps) for audiophiles right next to the Launchpad.
U keep bloating iTunes until it become a mega operating system, that's the solution 😂
The next Mac OS after Catalina will be called Mac OS: iTunes
iTunes OS for ItuneMac. ITunesPhone running IIOS(itunes itunes operating system). iTunes PAD running ITunes PADOS. iTunes Apple running Tim iTunes and Johnny Itunes.
iTunes was crazy heavy on windows computers. It was bad on macs, but on Windows it dn took forever to launch and was extremely crash prone.
"After all isn't Apple about keeping things simple"
Hilarious.
Apple got rid of the old, bloated iTunes app and split it up into three simpler apps called Music TV and Podcasts.
I dont mind the change - it might even give us a breath of fresh air... I personally never used the podcasts or TV (I just never used them nonetheless) and since the integration with the iTunes library is so seamless, well, than that's a bonus! ;)
RIP iTunes 2001-2019
Rest in hell forever
@@AhmedEx1. lol
Ahmed Ex1 ????
ITunes still alive on windows
Thanks for the Vid. From your screen shot I can see local backups. Only questions is where or If can still upload custom ring tones?
Thank god for this. I was actually confused what iTunes is for when I wanted to buy songs. I didn’t know if I should buy from iTunes or the Music app because I remember reading somewhere that iTunes is now a music streaming app which got me even more confused if they still sell songs or not.
Me: *installs macOS Catalina Developer Beta*
Greg: *uploads another video*
Me: *watches it while in the Install macOS 10.15 Beta application*
Did Napster and Apple butt heads?
For those of us who do not want to use iCloud, I hope Apple keeps a component of iTunes to be able to backup iOS devices with PC Windows 10. I know there’re third party apps that can do that, but I’m not sure how secure they are.
They’ve all but abandoned Windows devices. They want you to buy one of their MacOS devices to properly backup any other device without issue, or buying a subscription for iCloud so you have more storage.
You can still backup IOS devices to iTunes on windows, it’s just iTunes won’t ever get updated, even if it does support any and all future devices.
@@Thewaterspirit57 That aged poorly. They're doing the same thing on Windows they did with Mac. You can still get the old iTunes, or you can get Music, TV, and Devices from the Microsoft store (they are still in beta though). They are way better than iTunes, with an interface that matches with the Windows 11 design language.
@@MicahIsBatman2 Yet that also means there is no local device backup for any IOS device for windows, just their crappy individual apps that don’t work as well as they do on Mac. They want you to buy a Mac device, so they’re gimping windows apps. You can try to use iTunes, but the thing only ever gets updated to recognize new iPhones/iPads/apple stuff.
This comment aged well, because it’s still all true idiot.
I’ve been running Catalina aka MacOS 10.15 since day one. I can attest that all your music, podcasts and movies transfer over to each seperate app. So do not worry when the time comes for you to update.
M Jearl Vinot, what about manual backups? Can they still be done?
@@enochgray8762 NOPE. Once you get Big Sur - you're screwed.
Leave the Windows version of ITunes alone.
I think it’s so funny that apparently iTunes was so cluttered & unintuitive but growing up w/ it, I always thought it had been so perfect
Nathaniel Ray when I got my first iPod I thought it was amazing if not a little cumbersome. I think it just needs a revamp and that’s it. Podcasts make sense to be in iTunes I don’t understand how many separate apps you can have on the desktop for this.
Gwendolyn Campbell I agree! I think an update with everything more simplified a bit would be better, but I suppose it’s not a bad idea separating it, I just would personally have preferred a simplified, enhanced iTunes
I hate when People Saying "FIRST"
Touche me too!
And 80% of the time they aren't even fist lol
Weegee is numbah one!
thats because of the shit comment system
first let me just say that I just wanted to see your comment
I love your narration...great stuff, awesome!!!
Thank you i needed this.
I use iTunes, by ripping cd's into the library, then synching said library firstly to an ipod, now to a iPhone.
What about managing iPhone with iTunes though? Like I use iTunes on my Windows PC to import media files to different supported apps of my iPhone, how will I be able to do that in future?
YOUTUBΞGΛMΞR929 that's the point. You can't simply do that with iPhones
Anyone remember SoundJam? That is where iTunes came from. It was a third party app that was acquired by Apple.
On Mac OS 8
Though i love Apple Music, i hoped it would’ve been renamed into “iTunes”- I just imply love the name.
Apple is using the i branding less and less. Apple Books, Apple TV, App Store, Apple Podcasts. It just makes more sense to call it Apple Music to fit with the others.
@@Churros1616 I never noticed but that’s very true.
@@NvanRoblox And using the 'I' branding will get Apple into trademark infringement lawsuits.
*Apple Explained:* This is why apple is doing this!
*Apple themselves:* I like money!
Almost like their a company or something, who da thunk dat.
Wow so far a lot of people, even Apple fans criticised iTunes for being so bloated and now all of a sudden they love iTunes?
How will this work for users running an older version of MacOS?
I guess that older versions of iTunes will continue to work, or at least keep most of their core functionality.
Look up what last version of iTunes supports that Mac OS. It will only do that version of iTunes like Lion only goes up to iTunes 11.
I'm maxed out at El Capitan and still use iTunes as my main library and syncing my ipods.
I know I’m super behind but thank you for this video. I think the decision to spread the apps out is a good one since iTines became so bloated and difficult to use over the years. I used to love iTunes and used it exclusively since around 2005 but ditched it for Spotify as my main music source about a year ago and only use it now to store my rare music.
The problem with all these contemporary musical apps is that they assume 99% of music is Pop Tunes... while 99% of Music is NOT pop but “old” and no longer salable in a high $$$ Market.
i say that what they did with itunes is just lazy as hell they could improve the code and also make it easier to use and bring back the classic menu from years ago also alot of people dont like this type of transition and i dont like steaming music from the internet i prefer owning music where as owning videogames these days is more like renting the game because i can lose access to that game i bought full price for if the server shuts down or if my account gets banned for no reason
billyhatcher643 agree with you. I prefer buy it rather streaming it because when the subscriptions is over, we can’t access the music. And also, we don’t have to worry about going offline if we want to listen music.
Sorry if my english so bad.
i dont mind u did really well @putu hanaggara but yea this is why i cant stand streaming services because if the free tiral is gone ur done and u cant stream the content anymore and the fact that google stadia will kill ur data cap really fast where as downloading games will not kill the data cap and also if there are alot of people online thatll make everything worse so google stadia isnt ready for this type of service yet
@@billyhatcher643 Interesting how the non-English poster's written English is better than the native English poster.....
What if my iPhone says iPhone disabled
Connect to iTunes.
Well i never used iTunes anyways
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Facts
king slayer lol
Promoting Minecraft? Ok then, atleast its not fortnite
All phone interfaces would say connect to a computer or apples new entree as a replacement for itunes
Thanks for that explanation 👍
They should get rid of Tim Cook!!!!
Why?
Idiotic
No he is making apple great again you broke people
No
Finally, i've been sick with itunes being littered with junk. I just want it to do what it was originally was built for.
XXX So have I. Google Play store has Apple Music, but I'm done with it..
This is gonna end in a power play to deny your right to sync your music and stuff from your computer to the iPhone...ultimately forcing you into their Apple Music service and iCloud storage fees.
Thank you. Learned a lot
Very well explained. Thank you.
iTunes on mac - ok
Apple - LET'S GET RID OF IT
iTunes on Windows - hellish spawn
Apple - is k, let's leave it as it is
Apple: Let them suffer and learn to pay for our overpriced piece of garbage
Vulcanitu its bloated as hell.
The only thing I use iTunes for is to manage things on my iPhone and iPad. 🤷🏼♀️
What about the iPod models that don't run iOS? Will those be managed in Finder as well?
How do we backup our data now? other than the iCloud
Why Apple is getting rid of iTunes:
*So people don't downgrade Their old iPhones and sell for a lot of Money on eBay*
Never thought of that but okay
I did that but kept it. It's a 4s and iPad 2 on iOS 6 as it's the only one Apple has allowed to downgrade to that iOS. I wish it was iPhone 4 on iOS 5 tho
@@pyeltd.5457 Right
Pye Ltd. i have an iPhone 4 on ios 4
Why? I have an iPhone X that is kept current, and the battery life is awesome.
if itunes is removed, how are we suppose to sync data and backup our data?
Yan Wen It’s said right in the video that you can still do this, it just works through the finders app now
Go to finder and under Macintosh disk your connected phone will be there. Click on it and it will look like the latest version of iTunes.
Andromeda Vieira here’s the problems with that 1 I don’t have a Mac because it’s trash for what I’m doing and I’m not sure what I’m downloading to sync my phone to my computer. 2 iCloud fills up way to fast so when I get a new phone I sync it to my pc and download my info to it and I taught my grandparents how to do this. So I’m not even sure how this effects me. I just heard they are getting rid of iTunes and I don’t know what’s going on or what to download or if they are still gonna update the iTunes app for Windows. This just seems messy to me. Why don’t they just update it? Steam literally does the same and more. This just seems like apple being a pain in the ass again removing shit people don’t want remove to solve a problem most people didn’t have.
Yan Wen Your comment reflects precisely why iTunes became a bloated mess. Think about it. You have been using what was initially intended to be a music player to sync data and apps, and to back up your computer (or “device”... lol).
finder
Four years later and I'm laughing because my beloved iTunes is still going strong on Windows along with my 20-year-old library
I like the vlog but can you still rip your own cd and where can you get your Purchase files from I tunes
Then where can I find my iTunes backups?
King falafel finder
Finder
Wait so instead 3 in 1, they made 1 in 3??? What?
Hi I am Jacobbmw from malaysia just want to ask you that will i still ever use itunes in my window microsoft 8?
What about older macs that can't be upgraded to Catalina or even Mojave? I have a perfectly working 2011 Macbook Pro but it's no more upgradable to the latest version of MacOS. Will it get three different apps or will I be stuck with unupgradable iTunes?
As far as I can tell, Apple developers constantly change things, that do not need to be changed, in order to justify their salaries.
That's what pisses me off the most on any app. They keep changing shit just for the sake of changing it, not to make it better, just different.
04:34 Sun Ra! Space is the Place!
Greetings from Bootes to Saturn.
I had an iPod before iTunes the first iPod that I ever had synced with Music Match Jukebox on Windows.
That’s what I was wondering if it was going to affect our current music list or anything involving buying it from the iTunes Store
Second and 5th like okay this is finally done and you can use Apple music In windows full speed
Thanks for the video
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5:43 how do you get iMessage to look lie that with the bubble style??
what about managing iPhone ringtones and my own music library, will my stuff transfer.
I’ve been using Spotify for two years now. And apparently a lot of other people have been too so I’m not really surprised by this.
Ugh I hate Spotify. It doesn't need to exist. UA-cam and iTunes/Apple been have been around way longer, why use something newer?
Spotify STEALS their product..... NO ROYALTIES TO THE ARTIST!!
FUCK SPOTIFY!!!!!
Melanie Jonas Spotify is just cleaner and can be used by more devices and programs like game consoles and DJ applications.
RealityHurts923 Pandora, iHeartRadio, UA-cam can’t be?
Melanie Jonas No itunes is not available on all devices like Spotify.
The Mac Pro looks Nice But it's to Much For My wallet
Said by most of us.
Also it's grammatically incorrect to have random capitalization. I may seem like a grammar Nazi, but I refined the English language as it is... so...
that's why you have an extra kidney to sell on the Dark Web . ;)
Unless you're a pro user, it is essentially useless for you if all you are is a regular consumer.
Too not to 🤗
@@Naeromusic That's obvious. It's on the title.
Very Informative. I never brought an iPod or any of the modern tech from Apple. I stuck with a desktop and I used iTunes to rip my CDs to Wav files which I played on an Olympus device.
I used external hard drives for storage and I then put my compilations on SD cards to play. The only problem I had was labelling the SD cards to storage had to be meticulous. One case for Jazz, another for classical etc etc.
I tunes is not what it stared to be and over the years it became more and more complicated.
It was not helped when the stopped compatibility with older computers and that was the start of the rot.
It's never been the same since.
I am glad they have done it! I don’t in which logic it becomes intuitive to encrypt backups using musing program(iTunes)!
So, I can still buy music if I want to? Cause I still prefer to buy music rather than streaming it. At least for now.
Why do you prefer to buy music? Like honestly there is tidal and apple music now. tidal makes you able to stream full master 24-bit audio so there is no real loss there. Like I am just genuinely curious why you want to buy music instead of streaming it.
XXXTENTACLES I just haven’t adjusted to it yet. And I don’t have reliable income yet. Once that settles in then maybe I’ll get Apple Music. I’m just not ready for it yet.
Brainpop 14 ---- Yes, you can still buy music.
I like buying my music because there's a certain power in ownership that you just don't get with these subscription services. I want to know I have the hard mp3 (or whatever else) file on my hard drive somewhere. I don't even buy enough music for it to be worth the seemingly cheap monthly cost. I'd buy maybe one or two popular songs each month, and perhaps if I really like an old album, I can buy a CD for $1-3 online and rip it into iTunes to have forever.
It's like the difference between owning and renting a home. I don't want much of this indefinite spending month after month with no end in sight (and potential price hikes and artists pulling their music at will).
myowncomputerstuff You just took the words right out of my mouth. I do really like that assurance that I actually have it and can listen to it anytime I want. My sister actually still has some old CDs that she lets me borrow sometimes. I also really want an iPod Classic sometime soon.
So is iTunes “Music”? Since i NEVER use it..
I use a much better Music app than Spotify or Music..
Does anyone know if these changes will affect anyone still running on El Capitan or is this just on the new Mac OS update?
Great explanation 👍🏻
i disagree with your comparison between Itunes functions and OS across platforms. you have to different OS for these platforms because the architecture for the devices are different therefore you need to make it differently. Also, if they just kept Itunes to music, podcasts and radio, that will help a lot. I like having podcast and all audio formats in the same area.
Common sense seems to have leave the Apple building
OKKKK I'm not losing my music, thank you for this informational video
Are we still able to update the software (for our iPhone or iPad) with a Mac, when there's no iTunes?
Also last year, Apps could not be synced or managed from iTunes. You can no longer download your Apps and then open up the package to see the resources (images, sound, etc) from a iOS app.
Good thing I have a iPad I still have Music And iTunes store✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
The new Music app is good but it got rid of half of my music library’s artwork. Also it you have to manually put the artwork in when you put music on it not from the iTunes Store.
Probably just a bug since this is the first beta.
Does it still allow you to rip compact discs thats not a rhetorical question i still actually do that
I think so but I only have a MacBook Pro so I have no cd drive to test it out.
@@peyman9ch Ah! well thannks for replying anyway you see i've heard from many sources that your ripped music will still exist in the new app but there was no clarification if you could still rip going forwards
Should’ve thought about the beta bugs if you have a torrented library
How do you back up from any pc computer since iTunes will be gone?
Are you still able to sync music from your music library to an iPhone? Or it all should be done through Apple Music Cloud Library?
i remember windows media player...
on fucking god!!! you also remember the mode where you can see the where trippy colors
I didn't know itunes had disappeared 3 years ago. So when I finally got my first ever apple product this year, I was slightly disappointed that the iTunes, a symbol of Apple, wasn't present.
However, after watching this video, I'm glad I didn't have to deal with a bloated app that had seen better days.
Apple Music ftw.
Apple music is gay
Thank you for your explanation. But the one question which remains to be asked is whether I will still be able to listen to my music through Apple TV and to access my movie and TV collection through Apple TV? If Apple TV will only allow me to gain access to music and video that I have purchased from Apple, i.e. streaming, then this could really be a disaster for those of us using the entire apple ecosystem. I have music in my iTunes library which I have digitized from vinyl going back to 1958. Up until now I’ve been able to enjoy those recordings on the Apple TV. Of course I could do that through PLEX, but I do not find PLEX as complete as iTunes has been.
Music and Confessions on a Dance floor are my favs ❤️🔥
What would happen if iTunes on windows dies
captain punch NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
As he said, iTunes will still be in use on Windows. But eventually they could create 4 separate apps: Music, TV, podcasts and a dedicated app dedicated to syncing your iPhone
imgladiliveineurope
How likely is that??? Probably a 1 in 20 chance since Apple has pretty much abandoned Apple Applications on Non-Apple Platforms, only exception is “Move to iOS” (it’s for Android) because Apple wants more iOS Users.
Rhone Archer they haven't abandoned anything imo. They've just launched an Apple TV app on Samsung tvs. It even has airplay 2. They also offer Apple Music on android.
Apple is starting to expand their media services and they know they need to offer it on other platforms if they want to have more customers.
Watch for any windows updates that have to do with iTunes, also don’t update iTunes!
NO NO NO I NEED ITUNES TO MY ALBUUUUUMSSSSS
um apple music imports things from itunes tho
Syncing in The Finder makes so much more sense. I hope it’ll still support my 5th gen iPod that I use on a Memorex speaker. Call me nuts, I still love that device.
The first pieces of software I ever used from Apple are QuickTime player and iTunes on a Windows PC, not exactly an invitation to go deeper into the Apple universe.
Oh god no I’ve used it every day for years
How will we backup and restore iPhone and iPad on the Mac OS then? That's my main concern.
THE HISTORY | thank you for the timeline, it makes since!!
Smart move by Apple. The world of music has moved on as has tv and the popularity of podcasts and audiobooks.
They are just keeping things relevant for now.
Apple has done a bad thing for this reason how do you put videos and podcasts in music on your iPod?
Been using an Apple machine since 1989. But now... I bought a new MacBook Air in 2021 and wanted to move music onto it. Was doing this over a period of days, when I absent-mindedly clicked on the update pop-up. Went to the new Air and EVERY EFFING ITUNES ENTRY was gone. Since I need to use a Windows machine most of time at my job, I am about to say eff you Apple. You've changed the shape of chargers and ports, reduced the number of ports, made all the ports usb-c and now are re-offering 2022 models w/ standard usb -- and I still stuck with you all these decades. But this jacking up my music that I paid for (as a cd, off Amazon or itunes store) is the dot under the exclamation point. Laters with you, Apple.
Will this come with greater support for linux distributions?
save your dvds and cds and records and you will have more freedom
to sit in your own home and turn them on when you like with out shelling out money
you pay for it once and no more . freedom