Recently, iTunes was given a new icon (removing the CD), but I think it’s time the software received a whole new name. Or, even more radically, is broken up into several different apps.
When iTunes was launched in 1999, it was a simple music player with the ability to do MP3 conversions. Now iTunes is houses music, movies, shows, podcasts and audiobooks. It’s the conduit to your iPhone, iPod and iPad. And it’s a link to an online store for buying media.
It seems it’s time for a name change. iMedia, perhaps?
Or perhaps iTunes on the Mac could be broken up into multiple apps, as it is on iOS devices. It’s gotten a bit bulky and and cumbersome on the Mac.
On my iPad there’s the Video app (for movies I’ve bought online and self-made videos), the iPod app (for all my music), iTunes (the online store) and the App Store (for buying apps). (The iPod app also has music videos listed, but it seems to me they should show up in the Video app.)
So perhaps it’s time for iTunes to be be broken up into multiple apps on the Mac, as well as on iOS devices. After all, Apple is slowly merging the two operating systems into one…
— Dennis Sellers
