Well as long as no functionality gets lost along the way, no problem.
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Apple May Be Planning to Break Up iTunes With New Music and Podcast Apps for Mac
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finally! itunes was so well optimized when it came out. i remember exactly how fast and clean it was. it has died slowly due to bad choices by apples executives of software and services.
I think macOS 10.15 and iOS 13 will under goes some of the biggest rewrite in recent Apple History. Basically lots of Swift 5 dogfooding.
I think there could be lots of New API and Changes in WWDC this year.
I think there could be lots of New API and Changes in WWDC this year.
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It’s about time they killed off iTunes. At this point, there is almost no reason to connect your iPhone or iPad to iTunes on a desktop or laptop, and commingling all the various apps within iTunes hasn’t made sense for years.
iTunes unhappiness started around the time when the "store" was losing customers to streaming. Is the store going away? Why would you pay for a digital recording? To keep a favorite. If you're an Apple streamer, when you quit Apple Music or Apple Music+Movie, They should offer to sell you what you streamed to you. Your favorites. Take your pick. Pay half-price. Or, get the entire stream of four years' duration for only $1,000 or something. Even sell old media, like DVDs and Blu-Ray.
I like iTunes... but this seems like a good direction. Especially for Books! Its weird having an iPad app that is more powerful for reading and taking notes on your ebooks than that on your Mac. Would be excited to see this come true.
Please let this be true. iTunes has slowly become the most user unfriendly application I've ever used. It's the main reason I'm with Spotify instead of Apple Music.
There’s much to be celebrated with this speculative course of events.
But the replacement apps being Marzipan is not part of that celebration. Marzipan, in its current form, is anti-Mac.
But the replacement apps being Marzipan is not part of that celebration. Marzipan, in its current form, is anti-Mac.
Glad to hear this, it doesn’t seem like that long ago that iTunes was rebuilt from the ground up. It did not last.
Not sure if i'm happy about this yet. We might loose some or alot of functionality.
But will have to see the result first.
But will have to see the result first.
“May”? They’ve been leading this way for years. Removing the App Store from iTunes, shifting backups into iCloud, moving audiobooks into the Books app and ultimately creating the TV App.
It’s just been a matter of time. I look forward to a stand-alone Apple Music app for Mac and to finally get rid of iTunes.
It’s just been a matter of time. I look forward to a stand-alone Apple Music app for Mac and to finally get rid of iTunes.
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I'd like if they brought iSync back and gave you a lot more granular control. Like let people pick an external hard drive to back up their phones to instead of having to write terminal commands to get that to work.
Although such a feature would conflict with the iCloud business so probably never going to happen.
Plus I'm sure Apple thinks of using a Mac as the "digital hub" is very outdated.
But right now that's my biggest pain point with iTunes. Why can't I pick an external hard drive to back up to?
The only other thing I use it for is audiobooks, and I guess it's OK at that.
Edit: Or just make it part of Disk Utility . . . an app that has gone downhill since Yosemite.
Although such a feature would conflict with the iCloud business so probably never going to happen.
Plus I'm sure Apple thinks of using a Mac as the "digital hub" is very outdated.
But right now that's my biggest pain point with iTunes. Why can't I pick an external hard drive to back up to?
The only other thing I use it for is audiobooks, and I guess it's OK at that.
Edit: Or just make it part of Disk Utility . . . an app that has gone downhill since Yosemite.
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I seriously welcome this if true, but also sincerely wish it doesn't end up being half baked like Safari and some other stock apps. Don't underestimate it Apple.
Well I don't mind as long as I'm still able to backup my devices locally when I purchase new products and if something goes wrong with my products.
Sounds like someone might be pushing their NDA's limits.
"Apple will macOS 10.15 alongside iOS 13 at its 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference, which is set to kick off on June 3."
Device syncing, backups and updates already happen on device via iCloud. It could be useful for troubleshooting to have a Mac/iPhone connection and the obvious place for that is in System Prefs in the iCloud tab.
For Windows, an iCloud app already exists to manage this:
way overdue; iTunes app is a hot mess of a built in refridgerator-microwave-blowdryer-alexacube
iTunes needs to just die already.
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Just FYI, this isn’t an Apple-hosted customer service forum. You might as well be talking to a brick wall.
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Not sure if you heard, but Apple Music is already monetized.
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Segue doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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Just FYI, this isn’t an Apple-hosted customer service forum. You might as well be talking to a brick wall.
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Not sure if you heard, but Apple Music is already monetized.
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Segue doesn’t mean what you think it means.
You need to move to my neck of the woods, or any rural area at least 20 miles from a major city or interstate. Welcome to data caps, 3 mb promised-1 mb actual download speeds, all for the cost that many get 50 mb speed or better in more populated areas. As an added benefit, cell phone data is almost as reliable and major providers will say they provide coverage but.the lack of signal bars on your phone will tell you otherwise.
I don't want to hear about the cloud until it's physically nationwide and not just covering 70% of the population but only covering 20% of the physical land.
