Considering how bad Apple is at its own first-party software I really doubt it will be, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
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Considering how bad Apple is at its own first-party software I really doubt it will be, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Doubt it, if that was the case it would not have flopped hard.
I remember the Zune, don't know the software though.
It was a known "fact" iTunes was the best player.
It'll have iPad apps - lots of them. And regular appkit apps will slowly fade away as the marzipan apps get more powerful and able. But this will take 3-5 years to fully play out, I expect.
Like many people here, I think that the Mac will slowly become a pro oriented as the iPad gets more capable. I think that there will be a place for the Mac for the next 10 years, if only to allow the iPad to carefully evolve whilst the Mac can take up the heavier burden of being a regular computer.
Avast means to stop, an old nautical term used in sailing. Popular with pirates. Avast ye land lubbers!
You mean alas.
How do I make my music ”read only”? 7000 files, manually one by one, or is there another way?
In Mac, you can chmod the entire directory contents recursively to read only
In Windows, right click on the folder and set permissions recursively to read only
It flopped not because it wasn’t good but because the market was saturated and Microsoft was very late into the game. At that point people were not looking into spending a couple hundred dollars on a new media player.
So the LA Times is reporting that the iTunes Store is shutting down and Apple is "ending the download era." Is this simply an issue of nomenclature where they're shutting down the iTunes Store but the Music, TV and Podcast Stores are opening up in its place, or are they seriously expected to end the ability to purchase and download music and trying to strong-arm everyone into a lifetime of monthly AM subscription fees?
That is the big question. Don’t care what they call it, but don’t kill downloads.
Jumping late into the game is not an excuse, Apple has done it several time, in recent history with iPod, iPhone, iPad, AW, MacBook Air, Wireless EarPods, Home Pod, etc.
Granted some of these products are not hits, however it is just to demonstrate that being late does not mean a product has to fail.
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I believe some versions of Windows support ARM and the compatibility will only increase with future software catalogue.
Just got to wait and see how things play out.
I think Rene Ritchie’s most recent video is worth watching and helped to calm some of my fears. Rene also addresses the topic of the iTunes Store shutting down per the LA Times article you mentioned. The headline and lead in were basically clickbait.
Since you're not familiar with the Zune software, how can you have an opinion on it?
The Zune Marketplace was also, IMO, one of the best subscription services. $10/mo (or $100/yr) got you unlimited streaming, downloading AND 1 FREE ALBUM a month to KEEP! Yes, yours to keep with no DRM.
It's Microsoft who killed Zune. Terrible (lack of) marketing and MS just can't compete their way out of a box if they had to.
It may have been a "fact" iTunes was the best player for an iPhone or Mac, but not for Windows.
Ain’t it the truth. I was just thinking the same thing.
There’s a lot of perpetually unhappy people here crying for attention and the tiny but short-lived blip of power that comes with that.
What does it matter at this point? They've already wrecked the only useful part of iTunes - the app store.
At this point it was probably easier to kill iTunes and rewrite it. I mean, iTunes still theoretically supports device plugins, but I haven't seen a new device plugin in over a decade. Visualizers anyone?
That also means the new apps will be filled with stuff that doesn't work quite yet. Like did they bother with CD audio import? Bulk tag editing? Format conversion? Can you show/edit metadata tags?
And of course, how do you manage an iPhone that's syncing books, music, ringtones, and photos? I don't particularly want to go into 4 different apps just to manage what syncs to my phone...but I also don't have to upgrade to 15 either.
That also means the new apps will be filled with stuff that doesn't work quite yet. Like did they bother with CD audio import? Bulk tag editing? Format conversion? Can you show/edit metadata tags?
And of course, how do you manage an iPhone that's syncing books, music, ringtones, and photos? I don't particularly want to go into 4 different apps just to manage what syncs to my phone...but I also don't have to upgrade to 15 either.
Hey, if they can't build decent hardware might as well shake up software with the Tim Apple flair.
Am I the only one hoping he gets fired soon? Those keynotes are unwatchable now. So sad.
Am I the only one hoping he gets fired soon? Those keynotes are unwatchable now. So sad.
The iOS app store being the "only useful part" of iTunes is an astonishingly weird take for a popular media player.
As soon as tomorrow. The new iOS and MacOS betas will be available to developers right after tomorrow's WWDC keynote, like every year.
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Question is: what will they do about iTunes backups? I'm really surprised everyone who's worried about apple killing iTunes only talks about the media store, but nobody ever talks about what's going to happen with iTunes backups.