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All Mourn the Death of iTunes January 9, 2001 to June 3, 2019

Posted on the 03 June 2019 by Vinhta
All mourn the death of iTunes January 9, 2001 to June 3, 2019

Today, June 3rd, 2019 heralds the death of Apple's legacy music app, iTunes.

The music, TV, podcasts app launched in 2001 as a place for users to rip music from CDs. Since then Apple has expanded the app so it functions as the home for Apple Music on a computer, the iTunes store to buy music, TV, and movies, plus it's the place to listen to podcasts.

While Apple made some jokes about adding a dock, email and photos to iTunes during the Worldwide Developers Conference, it ultimately decided to can the app and replace it with three different apps - Music, Podcasts and Apple TV.

While this sounds like more clutter, it's similar to the three apps the company has on its other devices.

Today Apple announced that iTunes isn't going to be part of the next macOS. Meaning that users will still get to use iTunes for a few more months since macOS Cataline is likely going to come out during the fall.


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