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Apple is Bringing iTunes To the Windows Store (theverge.com)
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Apple is planning to bring its iTunes desktop app to the Windows Store. In a surprise announcement at the Build developer event today, Microsoft revealed it has been working with Apple to get iTunes listed in the Windows Store. It might not sound like an important addition, but iTunes is one of the most searched for apps that's currently missing in the Windows Store. USA Today veteran columnist, summing up the announcement, "Microsoft announces that iTunes (incl Apple Music and full support for iPhone) is coming to the Windows Store. Big get for Microsoft." Microsoft's communication head, summing up the situation, "Didn't see that one coming, did you!"
Yeah.... this will be news when _Apple_ announces this. Until then this might just be Microsoft helping keep shareholders excited.
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So one of the most gawdawful bloated pieces of shit software is now available on probably the worst online store on the Internet.
What a coup.
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The interesting thing about this is whether or not Microsoft is going to get out of the media-selling business. You can buy movies and music for your XBox or PC through the Windows Store, but adding iTunes as a client might mean they're getting away from that...who knows? With Windows Phone pretty much cooked, maybe they're starting to figure that a large part of their Store ecosystem doesn't make sense anymore.
I wonder if the app is going to be a Universal rewrite, or if they're using that Project Centennial Win32 emulator to move the existing app to the store.
This is not actually a bad thing. One of the problems with windows is that every software has its own updater etc.
Itunes through the windows store, hopefully means itunes update goes away, as it will now be handled via the store updater. And frankly I hope adobe reader, and java are available through store soon too. I wouldn't mind getting filezilla and qbittorrent and notepad++ and firefox and telegram and ... through a storefront too because it seems every day at least one of them needs an update.
My issue with the microsoft store is the lock-in. I want multiple competing storefronts. I want steam. I want gog galaxy. I want someone to put together a decent windows productivity app store that isn't microsoft, and for the OSS tools i use to come from a windows store/repo.
Like most people here I hate walled gardens.
However I do LIKE these 'stores'. I like Steam and GogGalaxy.
I like the humble store and frdroid on my android being there alongside googleplay and the samsung one.
On OSX i have the microsoft RDP client from the apple app store (free); and that it gets updated automatically as a result.
So I like app stores. I don't like being restricted to a single app store -- which is a big reason why i don't own an iphone.
So I want Microsoft to get an app store together; but i don't want them to go full retard and lock me out of other stores. I seriously hope Valve and GoG and origin etc can put antitrust / anticompetitive measures against Microsoft to force them to allow multiple competing storefronts.
I seriously hope google, opera, firefox etc can fight the full retard that forcing us to use edge entails.
On the upside, if Microsoft goes full retard, my steam and gog accounts will at least transfer to linux and OSX. (although i do lose a chunk of each library.) But, for what its worth, I don't think Windows 10 S is going to get a lot of traction -- anyone who buys it will be pissed off at the restrictions. A few schools and budget buyers might get stuck with it, but they'll all hate it.
Yes, but putting on the Windows Store means you can install it on Windows 10S! Yay!
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OSX does not do this. You can install anything you want there. Microsoft store is irrelevant anyway, you were always able to install iTunes on Windows 10 assuming you weren't running the RT or other broken versions. Just head to apple.com and download it.
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And anyone with half a clue would have gone to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General and turned it off. The difference? Windows 10 S won't let you turn that off, ever.
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It's what drove me away. I owned precisely one iPhone, and while there were aspects of the phone that I liked, after a couple of years of having to use iTunes I went out and bought a Nexus 5, and oh my goodness, I could just copy my MP3s over using a normal file browser, I could install VLC and play any damned video file I wanted, and while Android always feel a little rougher around the edges, it's not enough for me to ever go back to iDevices.
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