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The iTunes media platform was first released by Apple in 2001 as a simple music player for Mac computers.
iTunes was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001. Its original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections.
iTunes 1.x. iTunes 1.0 was released for Mac OS 9 on 9 January 2001, having been derived from the SoundJam MP codebase Apple had acquired from Casady & Greene. iTunes was first released for Mac OS X on 21 February 2001 with version 1.1, and it became a built-in app with the release of Mac OS X 10.1.
iTunes is Apple's music and video management software. It also serves as a desktop client for the iTunes Store and handles iOS device synchronization. It consists of two major components: iTunes itself, and Apple Mobile Device Support (AMDS) .
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. which opened on April 28, 2003. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films.
The music store launched in 2003 but iTunes started life in 2001, when the first generation iPod MP3 player - which stored 1,000 tunes - transformed the world of digital music.
iTunes has a history that parallels that of Apple since its release in 2001. In less than a year later, Jobs introduced the iPod, the hardware device that, married to iTunes, would turn Apple’s...