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Apple is Getting Rid of iTunes Wish Lists, Here's How to Save Yours

Poor move.
For apps I used it a lot and tracked prices. Nowadays I seldom purchase and app because everything is “subscription” and gazillion ads to keep playin, even I pay I still have to watch ads! Like in Planta vs zombies.
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Octavius8 said:
Poor move.
For apps I used it a lot and tracked prices. Nowadays I seldom purchase and app because everything is “subscription” and gazillion ads to keep playin, even I pay I still have to watch ads! Like in Planta vs zombies.
Now for show… poor decision…
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You can still buy shows and movies, it’s just moving.
 
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The cheap charts app is much better anyway (for those 6 of us remaining that still buy most of their movies and tv on iTunes and refuse to move to on demand streaming)
 
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Jamie0003 said:
My question is, why do the iTunes apps still exist?

Tv shows and movies moved to the tv app

To buy music, you still need to use iTunes

Why though? Why not have the music store built into the music app?

It’s so strange. I don’t understand why iTunes, in general still exists as a brand
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Depends on the platform of course but sure maybe iTunes Store on iOS and iPadOS should merge with Apple Music app like it does on macOS. I’m not even sure it is possible to buy music on tvOS and I know iTunes has zero presence anywhere on visionOS including the ability to buy music on that platform which I find unfortunate.
 
Man this is a worry for their plans on music purchases. I really want them to sell lossless tracks. But this news implies a slow walk away from iTunes purchase in time?!
 
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JOLoughlin said:
Depends on the platform of course but sure maybe iTunes Store on iOS and iPadOS should merge with Apple Music app like it does on macOS. I’m not even sure it is possible to buy music on tvOS and I know iTunes has zero presence anywhere on visionOS including the ability to buy music on that platform which I find unfortunate.
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It kind of makes you wonder whether Apple may ditch the music store altogether in future, with Apple Music being your only option. I was really disappointed when Apple Music got lossless but iTunes did not.

Another weird omission is the fact that 4K TV shows don’t exist on iTunes…
 
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Love-hate 🍏 relationship said:
And still no AppStore wishlist lmao.
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I miss the former App wishlist, it was handy for collecting some apps when I was unable to afford them. Several audio apps for $20+ that I’d buy once I got a gift card in high school.

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Does this mean the Movies and TV Show apps that haven’t worked in 3 year will finally be remove from Apple TV?
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I can’t believe those apps are still around, let alone the inability to uninstall from my TV.

kalafalas said:
The cheap charts app is much better anyway (for those 6 of us remaining that still buy most of their movies and tv on iTunes and refuse to move to on demand streaming)
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grammatica said:
Y'all, I recommend the Cheap Charts app for tracking your wishlist and prices! Use Sign in with Apple for an easy set up.
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I popped on to mention CheapCharts, it’s nice others are making use of it. I definitely recommend it.
 
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Jamie0003 said:
My question is, why do the iTunes apps still exist?

Tv shows and movies moved to the tv app

To buy music, you still need to use iTunes

Why though? Why not have the music store built into the music app?

It’s so strange. I don’t understand why iTunes, in general still exists as a brand
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My older cars infotainment needs iTunes with 1 song on it for it to allow any spotify or streaming, weird but charming bug 🙂
 
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Good to get a reminder about this. Seems simple to shift the watch list to Apple TV. I don't have anything to transfer. Think Apple will give a reminder again before it is fully removed.
 
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carswell said:
Qobuz has offered this option since forever. If record labels and recording artists have issues with it, that'd be news to me. And you still need a Qobuz subscription to take advantage of it, so streaming revenue is in no way affected except maybe boosted (by people signing up to take advantage of the feature).
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Your argument is really going to be 'Qobuz' 🤣 Let's compare the number of users on each platform. And artists/labels aren't paid a flat percentage of your subscription, it's based on the amount of music you stream. If you buy the song the label only gets paid once, vs perpetually for a streamed song.
 
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Your argument is really going to be 'Qobuz' 🤣 Let's compare the number of users on each platform. And artists/labels aren't paid a flat percentage of your subscription, it's based on the amount of music you stream. If you buy the song the label only gets paid once, vs perpetually for a streamed song.
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Number, schmumber. The business model works and is scalable.

While your point about streaming revenue for artists is valid, I was referring to revenue for the platform, not the artists/labels. Still, the cut the artists/labels receive from the purchase of albums would take thousands of streams (for which they receive between $0.006 to $0.009 per stream on Apple Music) to reach. Taking your argument to its logical conclusion, labels/artists would never release vinyl discs and CDs because that would eat into their streaming revenue. And yet they do.
 
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carswell said:
Number, schmumber. The business model works and is scalable.

While your point about streaming revenue for artists is valid, I was referring to revenue for the platform, not the artists/labels. Still, the cut the artists/labels receive from the purchase of albums would take thousands of streams (for which they receive between $0.006 to $0.009 per stream on Apple Music) to reach. Taking your argument to its logical conclusion, labels/artists would never release vinyl discs and CDs because that would eat into their streaming revenue. And yet they do.
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I don't know anybody that buys CDs/vinyl for anything other than a thing to display. Vinyl seems to be the exception where a lot more people I know will buy it and actually play it, but those people are still streaming those artists massively. I do acknowledge however that this might be a cultural difference.
 
I just received my "Wish List" pdf from Apple via email. While it does contain entries for some TV show episodes I currently have in my soon-to-be-decommissioned iTunes Store Wish List, some are missing. Also, there are entries for movies that existed in my iTunes Store Wish List years ago but have been since deleted (because I purchased that content years ago). I just now checked my iTunes Store Wish List to be sure and there are absolutely no movies in there.

There are also some pdf entries for movies I have never had in my Wish List nor that I had any interest in (never searched or previewed those -- never even heard of them).

This is an embarrassing failure likely caused by the junior level software engineer that was assigned to this unsexy project.
 
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