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Apple Finally Kills iTunes (thenextweb.com) 93

An anonymous reader shares a report: After long anticipation, Apple finally announced today that it's killing iTunes at its developer conference WWDC held in San Jose. Instead, it will be replaced by three new apps: Music, TV, and the Podcasts app. You can sync your iPhone directly through the finder app.
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Apple Finally Kills iTunes

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  • The summary here basically includes the entirety of the linked "story" - no real reason to click through.

    What I want to know is... what about the server-like aspects of iTunes? Are they just ceding that space to Plex and Kodi?

    • by Quirkz ( 1206400 ) <ross @ q u irkz.com> on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:26PM (#58702976) Homepage

      Also, those who have a Windows PC. Will there be Windows versions of the apps? And does "Finder" also mean sync via Windows Explorer?

      Where do audiobooks fit in this? Are they music or podcasts?

      • by e3m4n ( 947977 )

        Well if they gave you a Windows tool how in the world are they going to convince you that you need to buy that $5000 Apple pro along with that $5000 monitor with the option of a $1000 stand. Get with the program!

        Cook: How are you gentlemen!!
        Cook: All your cash are belong to us.
        Cook: You are on your way to broke.
        Cook: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha

    • by ripvlan ( 2609033 ) on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:31PM (#58703000)

      I know. The Finder App? On my Windows PC?

      Does that mean I'll now be able to drag/drop MP3 and playlists just like any other MP3 player?

      I have noticed that Apple is moving away from "own your music" folks. I have a library of mostly CDs that I've ripped and a few songs I've purchased from Apple (one-hit wonders). However, when I login to Apple Music Service from supported devices (like Sonos) it shows that I must sign up for a paid subscription. It won't even list the songs I've previously purchased (I understand they won't stream my CDs -- duh).

      Now I won't even have an integrated CD ripper / iPhone sync tool. Roll your own dude.

      I understand technology is shifting to streaming services. But that also appears to be the ONLY way you'll be able to access music. A sort of DRM. It would be nice if I could rip to the cloud and sync/stream to my phone. Amazon sort of does this - if you buy a CD from them the Amazon Music app places an MP3 version of the album right into the iOS music library (automatically). It's one of the reasons I buy from them - easy peezy. Even the Disney Bluray app does this -- buy a CD, type in a code, and it pops up in Amazon/AppleTV. I still own the disk even if the streaming service changes TOS.

      • If you can still download the m4a files, you still can copy of the files. I do that with everything I've ever bought from iTunes or Google Play.

      • Can't talk to the rest, but iTunes was always a shit ripper, just get EAC and compress to whatever you like.

      • I have noticed that Apple is moving away from "own your music" folks.

        You've only just noticed that?

  • Spell Check! (Score:4, Informative)

    by Bigbutt ( 65939 ) on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:14PM (#58702872) Homepage Journal

    > An anonymous reader shares a report:
    >> After long anticipation, Apple finally announced today that it's killing iTunes at its developer conference WWDC held in San Hose. Instead, it will be replaced by three new apps: Music, TV, and the Podcasts app. You can sync your iPhone directly through the finder app.

    San Hose?? Really?

    [John]

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      It's French, for "without hose"

    • by bob4u2c ( 73467 )

      San Hose?? Really?

      That can't be right, let me check the story. Hmm, I guess San Hose it is.

      Will the one after that be at San Faucet?

    • by PolygamousRanchKid ( 1290638 ) on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:55PM (#58703162)

      San Hose?? Really?

      [John]

      It's a mixture of French and German.

      "Sans" (French) = without

      "Hose" (German) = pants

      So Tim Cook wanted to spice up the WWDC with a bit of iKink, and required participants not to wear any pants.

    • by novakyu ( 636495 )

      Yeah, they misspelled San Hosé.

    • [Hohn]

      FTFY...

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      > An anonymous reader shares a report:
      >> After long anticipation, Apple finally announced today that it's killing iTunes at its developer conference WWDC held in San Hose. Instead, it will be replaced by three new apps: Music, TV, and the Podcasts app. You can sync your iPhone directly through the finder app.

      San Hose?? Really?

      [John]

      I think you mean

      [Hohn]

  • by Anonymous Coward

    this is the source you use? One that spells the name of the third largest city in California, San Hose?

  • I'm curious what they'll do with the device management features of iTunes — specifically the ability to back up your device locally. That's basically the only thing I've done with iTunes in the last five years.

    • What about managing older iPods, too - the ones before iOS? I still prefer my late-model clickwheel iPod to an iOS device for listening to music, but you need iTunes to manage it well (there are some free software hacks it's true, but iTunes is a lot easier).

      iTunes backup isn't worth much these days - it doesn't back up application data so you end up with your contacts, OS settings and apps without data - including PDFs saved to iBooks and progress in any games.

    • by b0bby ( 201198 )

      That's like me - although I usually end up cursing it when I interact with itunes, having that local backup is a great thing. I wish I could convince my family to just switch to Android, but they ignore me.

  • Now, instead of one annoying ass program, we'll have three separate ones :|
    Perfect.

    Why can't Apple follow Androids lead on this ?

    Computer -> Cable -> Phone . . . . . done.

  • Do all of her old hardware get upgrades? She's got an old appleTv box too, and an old mac mini running itunes in the basement. I think she has about six devices that ultimately pull itunes content and show them on a screen somewhere. Not one of them is less than ten years old.

    So will they still be able to play any of their existing content? New content? Do they get updates, somehow magically? Or do I get to throw them out and try, again, to convince a woman that the reason "apple products just work" is because they don't work for you. Her iPhoneX just ate 3GB of cellular data in two minutes when she plugged it into her one-year old macbook pro to charge, while her macbook decided to update macos, and decided to use the IPhone-over-USB connection, and hence the iPhone's data plan, instead of free wifi. Why didn't the laptop use the phone's wifi connection? because the phone's hotspot was turned on, though not in-use.

    A nice $70 overage -- thankfully capped by local telecom laws, or it'd have been $1'000 ten minutes later.

    Yeah, her macbook and her iphone did an excellent job of "just working" by ensuring that the internet was online, even if that meant spending an infinite amount of money.

    Yeah, now I've set the service order. And yeah, next time, it'll happen when our home-wifi is offline, like during a power failure, and it'll "just work" again.

    • Lordy lordy... I have set up several layers of defense set up against this...

      First, using prepaid. I rarely have more than a gig on the account, which caps any losses to under $10.
      Second, I have a data quota set on my phone.
      Third, avoided marrying anyone with an iPhone. (i.e., anyone who wastes money).
      • She's a lawyer. She won't listen to me unless I'm considered an expert witness by the court. And she's very non-technical, (she can't plug the tv's audio optical cable back into the amp when the housekeeper or the dog pulls it out, every week. It goes into the socket marked "tv", and it's the only optical port at all. It's every week. She won't configure quotas of any kind.

        And that's why our country sets a limit on how much data overage an ISP can charge -- and limits it to $50 CDN.

        I would have been en

  • What will happen to the free iTunes push of music we got from that Irish band we all hate?

  • I hate itunes, but is seems the only way.
  • I shall miss SoundJam. At least it was around for another 18 years.

  • Used to love Floola when I had an iPod, drag and drop transfer of files. They were slow to support the newer touchscreen models, but made managing an Apple device so much easier.
    Then I discovered the Sansa Clip that supports flac files and never looked back for my portable music

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