I used to download them (took forever) because my internet connection was not unlimited
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Apple to Sunset iTunes Movie Trailers App, Roll into TV App
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Dang. I used this to add movie showtimes to my Calendar because it adds the accurate location and time. I don’t always buy my tickets online, so it’s useful for an organization maniac like me.
There's trust issues after iCloud Photo Stream got axed.
It costs money to make money you know. As long as beancounter is in charge, money losing service/product Will be axed immediately. iTunes might not lose money today, but once those licenses expire and music got pulled, this is when bad things start to happen. It’s just that pulling music from streaming service is easier because user just rent the library anyway, rather than obtaining a copy.
Trust issue that cost Apple how much? I bet it won’t be much. Almost can be written off as business expense and nothing to scoff at.
Some Apple employee feels proud of themselves for accomplishing this so I won’t say anything negative…
But I didn’t know it existed. I guess my brain has been engraved to just YouTube movie trailers.
But I didn’t know it existed. I guess my brain has been engraved to just YouTube movie trailers.
Man, I have some great memories with the Apple Trailers website - used it to download the Teaser Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when Star Wars mania was all the rage…and kept rewatching it over and over and over again with the incredible 5.1 audio that the trailer provided…
While I agree the service won’t be going away anytime soon, I could see the name and brand “iTunes” being retired.
Apple movies and TV show purchases and rentals are already handled by the TV app, the AppStore, podcasts, iBooks, and audiobooks have all been completely separated from iTunes, and in macOS really the only reference to it anywhere in the Music app is just the optional and disabled by default “iTunes Store” tab.
The actual built-in “iTunes Store” application on iOS provides very little benefit over the TV app for that content, and the music tab can easily be integrated directly into the Music application.
I think it’s just a matter of time, the remaining bits of iTunes haven’t been updated in years.
It’ll probably go away when iTunes for windows is finally officially replace.
Ah, QuickTime trailers was actually my first proper contact with Apple many years ago. It was the best place to get high quality trailers. But yeah, barely knew this site existed so I figure it's served its purpose now.
Yeah, that Phantom Menace trailer! So much hype. The download was slow indeed but after that I watched it dozens of times.
It makes no technical sense for them to do it - unless they want to remove the ability of users to play their own non-streamed content. Not to mention that Music, TV, Books, Podcasts, and App Store all share the same technical infrastructure and backend.
I am curious as to when the Trailers app will actually stop working, i.e., when should we start deleting it from our various devices?
I love that my preexisting music and Apple Music are integrated. I have a lot of music that is no longer available to purchase or stream
Lucky you weren't around in the mid-90s. I was heartily sickened whenever I bought a movie DVD, only to be faced with a barrage of trailers for forthcoming attractions that you couldn't skip over. Especially annoying if you picked up the disc a couple of years later. The only worse thing about them was the very early ones, where you had to turn them over half way through a movie.
I remember downloading the Star Wars Episode 1 trailer overnight so I could watch it. It was only a few MBs but I think I was using a 28.8 modem at the time.
I just commented about that before seeing your post. If people didn’t live through it, I’m not sure if they know how big of a deal that particular trailer was. It was huge.
This would be nice if they could build it into the AppleTV apps available on Roku, et. al. I'd love to have any good trailers option on Roku - a nice little add-on for "family movie night".
The Music app is just fine to cover all these, legacy or not.
No point splitting out into different apps for all music related features - it would be more confusing.