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Apple Releases iTunes 12.7 With Major Changes, Including No Built-In App Store
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Not happy about today's iTunes update.
New iTunes update (12.7) renders CS193p and lots of other public iTunes U courses inaccessible from a Mac or a PC since it's an iTunes U public course instead of a iTunes U collection catalog, which is moved over to Podcasts. They can only be accessed from iOS now.
Also gone is the ability to download and save App Store .ipa apps from iTunes, which is very useful for preserving games that developers later decide to remove from sale, or when developers refuse to renew their developer membership, hence render their games/apps inaccessible from the 'Purchased' tab on the iOS App Store.
Very disappointed with these arbitrary decisions. A rudimentary header diff between iTunes 12.7 and 12.6.2 suggests there is no actual thinning or rearchitecting of the app. I hope some better alternatives, such as Podcasts for Mac, iTunes U for Mac come along.
New iTunes update (12.7) renders CS193p and lots of other public iTunes U courses inaccessible from a Mac or a PC since it's an iTunes U public course instead of a iTunes U collection catalog, which is moved over to Podcasts. They can only be accessed from iOS now.
Also gone is the ability to download and save App Store .ipa apps from iTunes, which is very useful for preserving games that developers later decide to remove from sale, or when developers refuse to renew their developer membership, hence render their games/apps inaccessible from the 'Purchased' tab on the iOS App Store.
Very disappointed with these arbitrary decisions. A rudimentary header diff between iTunes 12.7 and 12.6.2 suggests there is no actual thinning or rearchitecting of the app. I hope some better alternatives, such as Podcasts for Mac, iTunes U for Mac come along.
Not liking this at all, particularly since I use an old ipad 2 (work horse of the ipads) and removing the app store and apps off my mac hard drive will effectively render the ipad useless as older apps will no longer be available.
This effectively puts apple in a position of rendering your unit totally useless. Recognize the ipad 2 is old but I would rather make the decision as to when I want a new unit & not apple.
This effectively puts apple in a position of rendering your unit totally useless. Recognize the ipad 2 is old but I would rather make the decision as to when I want a new unit & not apple.
I only download on the Mac - otherwise I would have to download 3 times. This will be a pain.
But doesn't that imply it has to be downloaded twice?
Cached content is a feature of Mac OS X server. I'm not sure running OS X server is a valid workaround for this problem.
Wading through all of these concerned posts has made it a little confusing to separate pieces of information from one another. Will this update have any negative implications in terms of ordinary wired syncing (losing content from the phone, etc.), and are local, archivable backups still supported via iTunes?
Apologies if these issues have been addressed already.
Apologies if these issues have been addressed already.
Great first step (though I'd preferred, instead of just killing the feature, moving it into a new iSync app that could manage all the syncing between Mac and iOS devices).
Next, Apple, dump the entire iTunes Store, University, movies, TV shows and all the rest of crap — move them somewhere else, I don't know where and I don't care, but please leave us with a MUSIC-centerd light app again, like when iTunes didn't suck.
Next, Apple, dump the entire iTunes Store, University, movies, TV shows and all the rest of crap — move them somewhere else, I don't know where and I don't care, but please leave us with a MUSIC-centerd light app again, like when iTunes didn't suck.
Yeah but I can just see the average user opening Terminal for the first time in his life... c'mon. This is a country --in the USA at least-- where every ISP tech support dude starts off "Is your cable modem turned on? That is the little black box over by the..."
Apple needs to put up an app manager where you dl the app to the laptop/desktop machine one time --same as if the function were still embedded in iTunes-- and apply it from there to your assorted iOS devices, which you connect via USB.
Otherwise with the tethered caching.... really, to have end users of a music app mucking around w/ Terminal commands -- and at that, as administrators? Just, wow.
Tethered caching is different from the caching service in the Server app.
Regardless, in High Sierra, the caching service is moved from Server app to the core macOS. In other words, it will be available to everyone.
Tethered caching is available now, at no extra cost, to the people who don't have Server app or High Sierra but do have iTunes 12.7.
Well that's a **** idea imo. I use that all the time to backup my devices as I upgrade all the time and never use iCloud backup not to mention if I update the app on my mac I can then update the same app on all my iOS devices without having to waste my download quota downloading the same app on multiple devices.
I posted a solution for people using Sierra.
You can also wait for High Sierra to be released in a few weeks, because the Caching Service from the Server app is being moved to the main OS in High Sierra. With a GUI interface for setting it up.
Me too. I have six iOS devices and a 3MBit ADSL line. I download updates to the Mac overnight while I'm asleep then I can sync them out easily to each device. Now I have to download each app six times. And what about when I get a new phone and want to migrate, will I have to download 30+GB of apps from the internet?
Which means that the App store won't be available for Windows users? Is there a version of the Mac App Store for Windows (which would've seem pretty pointless before this iTunes update).
Only if it couldn't get them from iTunes. iTunes would keep the un-thinned app in the library, and it would get thinned when it was sent to the device.
Interesting that the update left the files there in the Mobile Applications folder taking up space. Not a problem to go and delete them, but how many would know to do that?
Whoa, not happy with this news, inasmuch as I've always backed up everything to the Mac first and then shared it with the various devices. Aggggh.....
I like shopping for iOS Apps on my 30" Mac screen as it's much easier and shows more. I don't mind iTunes not having Apps but an Mac App for the iOS store would be helpful.