Apple Drops iTunes In Latest Mac Update

iTunes Takes A Back Seat

APPLE has officially ended iTUNES with its latest MAC software update dubbed CATALINA. Each iTUNES service has been moved into separate apps - APPLE Music, APPLE TV and Podcasts - replacing the once-revolutionary iTUNES, which launched in 2003, two years after the debut of APPLE's iPOD.

HYPERBOT reports, APPLE’s new Music app, which gets the old iTUNES icon, is now the new home for music on MAC. That includes songs previously bought from the iTUNES store or ripped from CDs, as well as APPLE’s free online radio stations. It’s also the home for APPLE’s $10-a-month music subscription.

With CATALINA, APPLE MUSIC subscribers will no longer see the iTUNES music store, unless they restore it in settings. Non-subscribers will see the store as a tab, along with plenty of ways to subscribe to APPLE MUSIC. (On iPHONES, iTUNES STORE remains its own app for buying music and video.)

HYPERBOT has the full story here.

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