Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic:
One of the great cultural events of the 2010s was the slow abandonment and ultimate death of iTunes. By the time the software was euthanized earlier this year, it had become an embarrassment, a mess of greasy preference panes and grayed-out, unreliable content. We were glad to see it go…
The computing realities of the 2000s have displaced the dreams of the ’90s. Instead of the libertarian-communitarian global village that Wired magazine and other prophets of the California ideology once imagined — where people control their individual digital domicile, then freely distribute the fruits of their orchard — we have been displaced to a kind of rentier’s frontier, where there’s enough space for everyone as long as you pay a low monthly fee.
MacDailyNews Take: What did/do you like better? Managing your iTunes Library or having over 60 million songs on demand via Apple Music? We’ll take the latter every day of the week!