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October 8, 2019

Goodbye, iTunes: Once-revolutionary app gone in Mac update

  • Apple launched its iTunes Music Store in 2003, two years after the iPod’s debut. As iTunes got bloated to support additional functions, the software lost the ease and simplicity that gave it its charm.
    • By RACHEL LERMAN and ANICK JESDANUN
    AP Technology Writers

    SAN FRANCISCO — It’s time to bid farewell to iTunes, the once-revolutionary program that made online music sales mainstream and effectively blunted the impact of piracy.

    That assumes, of course, that you still use iTunes — and many people no longer do. On iPhones, the functions have long been split into separate apps for music, video and books. Mac computers follow suit Monday with a software update called Catalina.


     
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