Apple plans to discontinue the iTunes application almost two decades after its release. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to withdraw the product at next week's WWDC event.
The end of iTunes is already overdue. It has been rumored for years that Apple will stop selling the app, as the company's customers already use standalone apps for movies, music or podcasts.
According to one Publication of Bloomberg, users can expect the Music app to offer many of the features of iTunes.
Apple's move is largely symbolic. It seems that the company "sees" value in the future of providing reliable applications and services as opposed to providing high end devices. With hardware sales kept at one level, the drive for a surge in profits elsewhere was rather expected.
Some will of course be disappointed with the company's move. The changes, however, follow an evolutionary array: phones that do not require computers, tablets that reduce the need for a laptop, and watches that do not depend on phones.
Note that there is no specific date for the upcoming withdrawal of the application, but users will probably need to be given time to put their files in a row.
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