Apple expected to close iTunes in face of Spotify challenge

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Apple expected to close iTunes in face of Spotify challenge
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Three separate apps covering music, podcasts, and television will replace iTunes, including the Apple TV+ app

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iTunes was released back in 2001 as a media player, library and online store - but its increasing number of features has left users criticising it for bloat in recent years. Apple is expected to retire the app in a welcome move for strategists at the company who have been pushing forward a new range of media apps on iPhones and iPads.The subscription-based Apple Music service - similar to Spotify - offers a very different spending and revenue model for the company compared to the buy-and-download model of iTunes.

A whole host of Hollywood A-listers - including Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston and Steven Spielberg - joined Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to announce a new video streaming service in March.

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