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Where Did iTunes Go?

October 16, 2019

Apple finally made good on its promise to kill iTunes. At least it's no longer available on Apple products running the latest version of macOS Catalina. If you are a Mac user, your iTunes media library is now available in the Apple Music app, Apple TV app, Apple Books app, and Apple Podcasts app. In other words, there is no longer a single application to manage your content. Apple has "retired" iTunes and organized your media type in dedicated apps. From my foxhole, dumping iTunes is a good thing. iTunes is one of the most bloated and poorly written software programs I've seen in several decades of dealing with technology.

Windows users are still stuck with iTunes for the time being. Apple has just released an update for a zero-day used to spread the BitPaymer ransomware according to a Naked Security post. Apparently, the flaw is with the Apple Software Updater and should never exist given the how heavily documented the vulnerability is for an 'unquoted path class' is. So much for qualified programmers and quality control testing. If you are running version 12.10.1 you are good to go. If not, make sure you update your installation as soon as possible.

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