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iTunes

software
Last discussed Sep 21, 2026

Apple's digital media store and media player for purchasing and organizing music, movies, and other content.

What creators say

Shaan Puri
mentioned
vs: Used as a loophole to get onto iTunes charts when the main iTunes charts were...

"He realized iTunes had an iTunes U section for like college lectures. He called the guy who controls that board — 'I'm a student, can I upload audio to that?' And he became the number one on iTunes U."

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Jimmy Iovine
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Praised: Bold, elegant software that matched the iPod and understood music culture vs: Preceded streaming; enabled legal music downloads vs. MP3 piracy

"Streaming — you have to go to iTunes first. That was very bold because the record industry didn't want to license it."

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Dan Lilienthal
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Praised: Seamless sync with iPod, easy file upload workflow vs: Part of the iPod/iTunes ecosystem cited as the last great era for listening t...

"The iPod obviously had the beautiful connection between iTunes and the iPod — it was easy to upload the files from your computer to iTunes, sync it to your phone. That's it. Easy."

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Jack Conte
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vs: Mentioned alongside Napster as an early digital music distribution model befo...

"The early experiments with okay what are we going to do here is like Napster and then it was like well there should be some type of economics around this, was like iTunes."

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Steve Stoute
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"The iPod launched before the iTunes. People think they launched at the same time. So when iTunes launched, the one thing about Apple at that time is if they could put distribution, the expense of distribution to a third party, Steve was all about ..."

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Tony Fadell
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vs: Used as example of principled content decisions at Apple

"When we had a very pointed discussion when the iTunes music store and and when it was turning into video um was being specified and when we're thinking about it"

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TBPN
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"We put it together before even the iPhone existed or the iTunes store. When the iTunes store launched and they needed to fill it with great apps. We were front and center."

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Keith Rabois
mentioned

"It's either on Netflix or iTunes or both."

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Andrew Yang
mentioned

"Then we digitized music and now you have iTunes and Spotify delivering abundance on a subscription model."

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Eddy Cue
creator

"when we launched iTunes on Windows I remember we did a poster and Steve called it on the presentation. It was like hell froze over"

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