Apple would like to shut down iTunes to coincide with its developer event next week. A service that marked a generation by forcing people to use it to use the first iPods would be lost.
In these times of streaming and digital content, we must not forget that we do not have anything physical, simply access licenses and it is almost the only way we have to consume music and movies. This is what warns us about one of the most notable movements that Apple is preparing with the imminent closure of iTunes, if the rumors are correct.
For a few hours if we go to the profiles on iTunes social networks we see how they no longer have publications, because Apple would have deleted everything related to the brand to eliminate it for the WWDC 2019 that begins to be held tomorrow and where there will be news about all the apple brand products.
Goodbye to music service after 18 years
Most likely of all, the brand will end up being spread everywhere, which has achieved more branding on its own than iTunes itself. On the one hand we have Apple Music for music, App Store for applications and Apple TV for audiovisual content, as will surely happen with postcasts and books. This is also in line with the attempt to make these services accessible on other platforms, with which they see a serious drawback in needing an iTunes registry that many were not going to use.
Even so, we must remember that all we are paying for is a license, we do not own anything in itself and we depend on the service to go ahead to access it. With the departure of iTunes, a service that was not exactly wanted leaves, if not that many resigned because there was no other way to get music on an iPod and that he had already harvested the hatred of companies like Netflix.
Source MacRumors
