Apple on Monday announced Catalina, the next version of MacOS. The next major revision of the MacOS will ship this fall and replace the iTunes…
Apple on Monday announced Catalina, the next version of MacOS. The next major revision of the MacOS will ship this fall and replace the iTunes app with three separate apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. The update will also let Mac users run iPad apps they can download through the Mac App Store. The announcements came on the first day of the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.
The new Apple Music, TV and Podcasts apps will replace iTunes, Apple said. Released in 2001, iTunes was originally designed to help you store and manage your music. Over its 18 years, the app’s capabilities expanded to become a music and video store; a digital shoebox for your music, movie, TV show, e-book, podcast and app collections; and the synchronization point between Apple devices. Its task of managing all your digital entertainment assets made iTunes both essential and eventually frustrating. Retiring iTunes and breaking its main tasks into separate apps should make it easier to manage all the digital assets on your Mac.
