In it, Jobs bemoaned the use of DRM (digital rights management) on music downloads and offered alternatives. In February 2007, Jobs penned an essay entitled Thoughts on Music (curiously only available now onĪpple’s Korean website), which would change the music industry forever. The company lived and breathed iPod, as Apple’s market share crushed its competitors. For years, Apple’s new product presentations focused on the iPod and digital music, with the rest of the company’s hardware being secondary. Photos, videos, and later apps, all made the leap from the desktop to pocket-sized devices through iTunes. But as digital technologies improved, and hardware grew new capabilities, iTunes shepherded different types of digital content to portable devices. At first it was about music and nothing more the “tunes” in iTunes. ITunes’ progression mirrored that of digital media in general. There were iPod games (remember them?), gapless playback was added (finally), Cover Flow (now retired), and support, in early 2007, for the new Apple TV. It did see the addition of video when the 5th generation iPod classic was released in October 2005, but it was iTunes 7, which lasted nearly two years-September 2006 through September 2008-that saw major new features. ITunes 5 and 6, released from September 2005 through June 2006, didn’t add many new features to the app, focusing more on compatibility, bug fixes, and minor enhancements.
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