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  breaking up iTunes RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-13 19:55 +0000

#17810 — breaking up iTunes

From the «bring on the marzipan» department:
Title: Steven Troughton-Smith Thinks iTunes Breakup is Nigh
Author: John Gruber
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:50:00 -0400
Link: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1114261872029700098

Steven Troughton-Smith, on Twitter:

I am now fairly confident based on evidence I don’t wish to make public at
this point that Apple is planning new (likely UIKit) Music, Podcasts, perhaps
even Books, apps for macOS, to join the new TV app. I expect the four to be
the next wave of Marzipan apps. Grain of salt, etc.

And yes, this means the much-discussed and long-awaited break up of iTunes.
Finally!

Makes a lot of sense — we’ve all been waiting for the breakup of the monolithic
iTunes app on Mac for years. In theory, what makes sense are separate apps for
Music, Podcasts, and TV — and Apple has already announced that a new Apple TV
app for Mac is coming this fall, presumably with MacOS 10.15. It also makes
sense that these apps would be created using the upcoming fully-fledged UIKit
for Mac stuff. (What we’ve been calling Marzipan for the last year is just one
part of a much bigger story.) If Troughton-Smith is correct, we might even get
betas of these apps in the 10.15 betas this summer.
★ [1]

Links:
[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/04/09/sts-itunes-breakup (link)


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