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Apple moves away from iTunes on PC with new Windows apps (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So they are getting rid of digital downloads. Terrible news

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming the content you download has Apple DRM so you continue to rely on them? And when they do away with that service your 'purchases' are just files taking up disk space?

A sarcastic, but genuine question (been reading about the Sony / Crunchyroll / Fun over the last few days).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Surprisingly, all music purchases through apple’s store are DRM-free (now, though it wasn’t always that way. They got in early on the DRM wagon in fact until iPods stopped mattering).