Apple announced Monday that it’s retiring iTunes and splitting the serviceinto separate music, podcast, and TV apps.The changes will take effect for Mac users in the fall. Although some form of iTunes will live on in iPhones, iPads and Windows devices, Apple is essentially phasing out iTunes as we know it. In the 18 years it was around before Apple announced its demise, though, iTunes transformed music. Before iTunes, the music industry preferred physical CDs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records. Napster, file piracy, and listening to music on Windows Music Player were all for a time common w…
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