Apple may finally dismantle bloated iTunes by delivering standalone Music and Podcasts apps

Apple finally summertime unveiled the novel Home, News together with Voice Memos apps built using Project Marzipan, its upcoming novel APIs for edifice cross-platform iPhone, iPad together with Mac apps. This year’s moving ridge of Marzipan apps is said to include the novel standalone Music together with Podcast apps for macOS, signaling an iTunes breakup may finally survive on the horizon.

That’s according to Irish Gaelic developer Steve Troughton-Smith who inwards a serial of tweets finally Fri expressed his belief, based on concrete prove that he wouldn’t reveal, that Apple could separate iTunes into separate apps for managing music, podcasts together with books, potentially relegating the app every bit nosotros know it to a desktop sync customer for iOS devices.

He wrote:

I am instantly fairly confident based on prove I don’t wishing to brand world at this betoken that Apple is planning novel (likely UIKit) Music, Podcasts, mayhap fifty-fifty Books, apps for macOS, to bring together the novel TV app. I facial expression the 4 to survive the adjacent moving ridge of Marzipan apps. Grain of salt, etc.

Apple already has a standalone Books app on macOS, but Troughton-Smith may survive referring to a Marzipan rewrite that could let Apple to simplify code field achieving characteristic parity alongside the iOS version together with potentially including back upwards for audiobooks similar on iOS.

As for the novel TV app, nosotros already know that it’s coming to the Mac platform this autumn ahead of Apple’s novel video-streaming service, dubbed Apple TV+.

In the master iPhone SDK UIKit apps didn't involve SpringBoard to run together with everything was a lot less divergent from macOS than iOS is today. So, for funsies, I had a stab at 'reimplementing' Marzipan on OS X v10.5. Apple's iOS apps began life every bit Mac apps on PowerPC, afterwards all… pic.twitter.com/JzY4Ny4pun

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) April 5, 2019

Apple is working to contain its iOS-only frameworks into macOS to assist developers port their iOS apps to the Mac platform alongside minimal changes. An early on SDK is expected to debut at WWDC 2019, which is scheduled to run cast June iii through June vii inwards San Jose.

Would you lot similar to come across the bloated mess that is iTunes separate upwards into separate apps?

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