Apple MacOS 10.15 Catalina features, news and release date
2001: iTunes launches to allow iPod owners to sync their music via the Mac. 2003: Apple launches the iTunes Music Store allowing you to buy music to download. Songs are locked to only be played on iPods and within iTunes. It would take till 2009 for the music you download to be “DRM free”. 2005: Video and Podcast support is added with the launch of iTunes 4.8. 2006: Apple adds the ability to buy movies and TV shows for the first time. The service launches with a number of partners including Disney. 2008: iTunes becomes the main hub to manage your iOS apps and activate your iPhone. The company also adds iTunes Digital Copy feature that allows you to buy physical DVDs and Blu-rays but still get a digital copy to play on Apple devices. 2010: Beatles comes to iTunes ending a dispute between Apple and the band. 2011: iTunes moves to the cloud. A new feature called iTunes Match lets you match any song you had manually imported with online versions from the Apple servers. 2013: Apple announces that it has sold over 25 billion songs sold on the iTunes Store since its launch. 2015: Apple Music is announced to compete with Spotify allowing you to stream millions of songs for a monthly subscription. 2019: iTunes, 18 years old, has served its purpose and is spilt into a number of individual apps.
