After 18 years the popular iTunes app is finally closing its doors.
Apple announced this news during its WWDC Developers Conference last night with the service set to be replaced by three different applications.
Instead of having iTunes on your desktop, users will soon get a trio unique apps including Apple Music for songs, Apple TV for video content and Apple Podcast for, you guessed it, podcasts.
The update will come later in the year as part of the new macOS Catalina update with Apple saying that iTunes is bering replaced to greatly simplify and improve the way Mac users discover and enjoy their favourite music, TV shows, movies and podcasts.
The US technology firm has also made it clear that users will still have access to their entire music library, whether they downloaded the songs, purchased them or ripped them from a CD.
And for those who like to own their music, the iTunes Music Store will continue to be just a click away.
Along with this iTunes reboot, Catalina also brings a swathe of other extras to the Mac including the ability to use an iPad as a second screen and the Screen Time service now arriving on desktops and laptops.
“With macOS Catalina, we’re bringing fresh new apps to the Mac, starting with new standalone versions of Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and the Apple TV app,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.
“Users will appreciate how they can expand their workspace with Sidecar, enabling new ways of interacting with Mac apps using iPad and Apple Pencil. And with new developer technologies, users will see more great third-party apps arrive on the Mac this fall.”
There’s no official release date for macOS Catalina but is Apple follows its usual launch cycle it should arrive in September.
There was one final piece of news for Mac fans with Apple revealing its new Mac Pro PC which has been designed for maximum performance, expansion and configurability.
Apple says the all-new Mac Pro features workstation-class Xeon processors up to 28 cores, a high-performance memory system with a massive 1.5TB capacity, eight PCIe expansion slots and a graphics architecture featuring the world’s most powerful graphics card.
It also introduces Apple Afterburner, a game-changing accelerator card that enables playback of three streams of 8K ProRes RAW video simultaneously.
The Mac Pro will launch later in the year with prices starting from $5,999