{"id":302078,"date":"2019-04-08T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=302078"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:34:23","slug":"apple-might-split-itunes-into-separate-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302078-apple-might-split-itunes-into-separate-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple might split iTunes into separate apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1114261872029700098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweet<\/strong><\/a> by Apple leaker Steve Troughton-Smith, Apple is planning to split various iTunes features into separate apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am now fairly confident based on evidence I don&#8217;t wish to make public at this point that Apple is planning new (likely UIKit) Music, Podcasts, perhaps even Books, apps for macOS, to join the new TV app,&#8221; said Troughton-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Troughton-Smith believes that each of these new apps would be Marzipan apps, meaning that they would work across all Apple operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not mentioned unbundling iTunes, but it is likely that it will happen at WWDC 2019 if the leaks are true.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the company recently launching various other new apps, including <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/300490-apple-tv-the-new-netflix-competitor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Apple TV+<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/300482-apple-launches-news-subscription-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple News+<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/301900-apple-cuts-homepod-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple cuts HomePod pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a tweet by Apple leaker Steve Troughton-Smith, Apple is planning to split various iTunes features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":302092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,32788,2638,611],"class_list":["post-302078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-apple-news","tag-apple-tv","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302150,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302078\/revisions\/302150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}