macOS 10.15 Expected to Feature Standalone Music and Podcasts Apps and Redesigned Books App

[jonnyb098]

Everyone seems to be overthinking this. They will simply split out the apps and probably either have a "SYNC" button in each app for devices or a new SYNC app for the peasants who still choose to sync their device using a cord or for the 10 people that still use an old iPod.

Or they could to the nuclear option and completely kill all iPod support and wired syncing support.

But realistically they will probably have a sync app for older devices.

 

[chucker23n1]

I remember the days when Mac OS updates were interesting. We talked about things like multitasking,

APFS

64-bit,

Swift

Quartz Extreme

Metal

Fast User Switching

Desktop Stacks

, Expose,

Continuity (Auto Unlock, Universal Clipboard, Handoff, Personal Hotspot, text message sync, AirDrop)

other GUI changes

Dark Mode

Siri, Purgeable Storage, Tabs, Night Shift, Notification Center.

Heck, Continuity alone is awesome. It took several releases to work reliably for me, but when it does, it's really awesome.

Keep in mind that early Mac OS X releases added many features in part because, well, they kind of lacked them. It wasn't until around 10.3 or 10.4 that all the essential features were there.

 

[eastwoodandy]

Everyone seems to be overthinking this. They will simply split out the apps and probably either have a "SYNC" button in each app for devices or a new SYNC app for the peasants who still choose to sync their device using a cord or for the 10 people that still use an old iPod.

Or they could to the nuclear option and completely kill all iPod support and wired syncing support.

But realistically they will probably have a sync app for older devices.

Why do you assume this is for older devices?

I don’t want my only backup to be in the cloud. I want control of my iPhone backups and don’t want to wait an eternity to upload/download my entire iPhone image from the cloud if I need to restore it.

Wireless and cloud is overrated.

 

[e-coli]

I quite like the current Books app, and do not like the News app. Hoping this is incorrect.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Is there a reason the iTunes Music store and Apple Music have to be separate apps? I’d prefer it if you could just buy something right within Apple Music and album/song reviews/ratings would be right there as well. Is there really a reason for iTunes to exist on iOS?

Because Apple doesn't have the talent to keep it all working together? Just a guess...

 

[zoozx]

About time, iTunes is bloated joke. A convoluted unintuitive mess.
This should have happened years ago!

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I quite like the current Books app, and do not like the News app. Hoping this is incorrect.

And iBooks on iOS blows chunks. *shrug*

 

[cmaier]

Will the new music app inherit the itunes music library? Will it support iTunes Match?

Will the TV app inherit the iTunes video library?

Is homesharing (server) supported?

Will I end up having to keep iTunes running just for home sharing?

So many questions.

 

[JoeShades]

So what about Itunes on Windows, I assume it just stays the same?

 

[NMBob]

Because Apple doesn't have the talent to keep it all working together? Just a guess...

I can't wait to see all of the wild and wonderful differences in the user interfaces of all of the new apps that each team comes up with.

 

[BrettArchibald]

Just do not take away my dynamically-live-updating Smart Playlists, Apple...

 

[Mic'sBook]

How about a standalone iOS device management app like the ones from 3rd parties (e.g. iMazing)?

 

[9081094]

As long as it is fully functional. The current Marzipan apps seemed quite lazy and just simple ports of the iOS counterpart with no added desktop features.

It looks from the outside that Apple has been very lazy on all their offerings. I really hope it’s a for great things to come. Things they’ve been working on behind the curtains since 2012 and will blow us away. If not, I’m totally lost with this company and don’t understand where the money is going instead of investors and paying dividends.

 

[AppleMad98004]

I'm sure they are keeping iTunes for people who manager their own music.

I would expect the Music App to be for Apple Music subscriptions only.

 

[B4U]

And when will Apple pull their head out of their back end and have an iOS app management app on Mac OS?
Redownloading every app on the device each time is ridiculous and time consuming.

 

[guzhogi]

So you’ll buy stuff in the iTunes app and it’ll transfer over to Music? Like I wonder how that’ll work.


I’m assuming we’ll still sync through iTunes for photos.

I wonder how that will work. Apple probably wants everyone to use iCloud to sync everything. For those who don't have enough iCloud storage, will people have to open iTunes to sync music, then open Photos to sync Photos, etc.? Or would they bring back iSync, or or something similar, to do all the syncing stuff? I have a boatload of music from CDs that isn't available on iTunes Music.

 

[cmaier]

I'm sure they are keeping iTunes for people who manager their own music.

I would expect the Music App to be for Apple Music subscriptions only.

But that’s not how it works even on iOS, and the point of marZipan is to allow one app to run everywhere, so I’m at least hopeful.

 

[bluespark]

So you’ll buy stuff in the iTunes app and it’ll transfer over to Music? Like I wonder how that’ll work.


I’m assuming we’ll still sync through iTunes for photos.

Syncing photos and other non-music data never made sense through an app called "iTunes" and which was once a music player only. My guess is that iTunes is killed off (finally!) in favor of purpose-driven apps.

 

[Razeus]

Make an app called Sync and take it out of iTunes. Leave iTunes for my stand alone music library and take everything else out of it.

 

[Elian_Gonzalez]

Ah, the Books app. Long the most pedestrian and ignored offering. Unless this "redesign" includes more elegant typeface choices, margin and line-height adjustments, it's not a redesign. It's merely window dressing with a "NEW" label on it.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

As long as it is fully functional. The current Marzipan apps seemed quite lazy and just simple ports of the iOS counterpart with no added desktop features.

This is also my fear. Music on iOS is hopefully not what we get.

 

[eatrains]

About time, iTunes is bloated joke. A convoluted unintuitive mess.
This should have happened years ago!

People always say this but never articulate it.

You have sections for music, movies, tv shows, podcasts, and books. Each of those has your library and a store from which you can add to your library. Is that really convoluted and unintuitive?

 

[moderngamenewb]

So you’ll buy stuff in the iTunes app and it’ll transfer over to Music? Like I wonder how that’ll work.


I’m assuming we’ll still sync through iTunes for photos.

Im assuming it’ll be like on iPhone/iPad where you purchase your content through iTunes and it shows up on the respected app. I assume photos will either be iTunes or photos app. Hopefully we will still be able to save iOS backups though locally

 

[bigjnyc]

Woopte doo! this is the kind of crap Apple users have to get excited about these days.

 

[yurc]

For iTunes, as Apple don't mess with my library collection I'm fine.

iBooks : I have several paid books purchased, I hope they don't mess it too, whatever it named (iBooks/Book App)

Also I hope Apple include cheese grater in 10.15 compatibility list, since currently we still don't have proper replacement.