Apple confirmed it will get rid of the 20-year-old iTunes app in an attempt to make each Apple device more independent from the iPhone.
Apple CEO Tim Cook presented the change at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Bloomberg reported. Also on the table are numerous other methods of making Apple gadgets, such as Apple Watches, less reliant on the iPhone, Bloomberg reported.
“It’s a great day for an Apple keynote!” Cook tweeted Monday.
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Big tech companies plan on replacing iTunes with three separate apps: Music, Podcasts, and TV. iPhones already utilize the separate apps, but other devices have yet to make the change, creating a difficult dependency, according to the Huffington Post.
A product of Steve Jobs, iTunes required users to pay a minimum of 99 cents for each song, a method quickly dominated by apps like Spotify moving to monthly subscriptions with a flat rate. Apple Music adopted the same system, now hosting 50 million subscribers paying $9.99 a month for more than 45 million songs.
Among this drastic change are other new developments, such as pushing the boundaries of the Health app, revamping of current apps such as Messages and Find my Friends, and making iPads a better alternative to laptops, among many other advancements.
“I truly believe that Apple provides the best native development frameworks in the world, which is why its platforms have many of the highest quality consumer apps in the world,” developer Steven Troughton-Smith wrote in his blog.
