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Leaked Apple Email Hints at the Possible End of iTunes: Report

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  1. No Worries

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    Leaked Apple Email Hints at the Possible End of iTunes: Report

     
    #1 No Worries, Mar 6, 2018
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  2. Joshfast

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    itunes has been a turd for a long time.
     
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  3. No Worries

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    Best Buy will stop selling CDs as digital music revenue continues to grow

    Best Buy is abandoning the humble CD and will no longer sell them in its stores starting on July 1st, 2018, reports Billboard. The move comes as CD sales continue to decline; revenue from digital music downloads eclipsed it back in 2014.

    Target, on the other hand, says it will only sell music CDs under a consignment basis, shifting inventory risk back to the labels. That means Target would only pay labels for CDs when customers buy them, rather than buying the CDs in bulk and paying for shipments of unsold CDs back to the label for credit.

    In a statement emailed to The Verge, Target said:

    Despite no longer selling CDs, Best Buy will still sell vinyl for the next two years, which Billboard says is part of a commitment it made to vendors. Sources suggested that Best Buy’s music CD arm was only generating $40 million annually.

    As we’ve previously reported, during the first half of 2017, streaming services accounted for 62 percent of revenue from the US music market. The decline of CD sales has also sparked Warner Music Group to offer voluntary buyouts to its 130 staff working in physical product, according to Billboard.

    It’s not surprising that we’re no longer buying CDs — at least not for new music. The best-selling CD in 2016 was a Mozart boxset, which contained 200 CDs that were individually counted as a separate sale. Users who don’t buy music prefer to stream it via services like Spotify and Apple Music, and gadget makers aren’t really making CD players anymore.

    There’s still hope, though: vinyl has seen a resurgence in recent years, as has the cassette tape. And even though there aren’t a lot of new cassette players on the market, artists are still finding ways to release music through physical mediums (or at least a mix of both). For example, Korean artist G-Dragon released his latest album via USB drive.
     
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    Convenient timing for Spotify's IPO.
     
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  5. TheFreak

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    Amazon better not stop.
     
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  6. Sadat X

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    iTunes was so amazing back in mid 2000s when it first really got popular. I went from using it daily to having not used it in over 2-3 years. Makes sense to me.
     
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    Man I have a huge catalog of ITunes music. What happens to them?
     
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    i just use itunes to back up my iphone....
     
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    Wow, welcome to the 2010s, Apple :rolleyes:
     
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    I too have a large collection of purchased music that I now regret buying. I can't imagine Apple just pulling the plug on iTunes without an ability to continue to play purchased music, even if it requires an iPhone or standalone Apple Music client. The 2020s are going to be post personal computer for sure.
     
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    Yep. Especially on Windows.
     
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    How in the hell can the author or anyone who read the article come to the conclusion that the end of LPs equates to the end of iTunes? There is absolutely nothing that supports that outside of the author making a baseless claim.

    This is easily the dumbest thing that I’ve read all week.
     
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    You could upload it to Google if you haven’t already.
     
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  14. Nick

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    Its not like iTunes requires that much back-end support or infrastructure dollars to keep afloat. Its simply a conduit for people to purchase music or subscribe to podcasts.

    This is only news if apple is planning on getting out of the music game all-together. Otherwise, they're still going to require some sort of app/program to be able to browse, sort, stream, or download their music.
     
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    I'm old and still buy CDs. I listen to an iPod. It's easy. I put my CD in. iTunes automatically rips it to hard drive. The files get automatically backed up. I plug my iPod in. It syncs. I go.

    As long as there is an easy way for me to keep doing the above, then I don't really care. I wasn't sure how well iPod syncing works with other 3rd party apps is my only question. Maybe I'd have to do manual copies.

    But anyway, I'm a regular user of iTunes for the past ten years, and I didn't even have any idea what this iTunes LP is. Sounds like it's basically just a media format to let artists include artwork with the music (or something)? Seems like a giant leap to take that as an indication the entire application is being scrapped.
     
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  16. Deuce

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    I have NO interest in signing up for a SUBSCRIPTION service to RENT music that can only be played from the CLOUD and thus means I need INTERNET ACCESS to play it.

    So if iTunes digital downloads are eliminated, then it will be CDs as long as they are around. I still buy CDs anyway.
     
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    I always prefer to buy cds from the artists I support. But when a knee slapper comes on the radio I sometimes iTunes it.
     
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    ..then let napster live again...
     
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    Steve Jobs was so against rental music for simple reason that we want to own the music because it's part of our self. That was his sales pitch when he was building iTunes. It will slow down piracy but it will also slow down sales.
     
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