The Role Of iTunes

iTunes is one of the main Music Players in todays current computer systems, it also has the features available to allow users to purchase movies, songs, and TV Series. iTunes was first developed by Bill Kincaid under the name of SoundJam MP. In 2000 Bill's software was bought by Apple who later on January 09 2001 released a version under the name of iTunes. iTunes was originally a Mac only product but later arrived on windows In October after the release of the iPod as this was the only software available to put songs onto your iPod.

iTunes has greatly expanded since its humble beginnings and can now be found on pretty much any system as one of the top used media players to date. And throughout many different iterations and updates all of the features that we have grown to love and use in our day to day lives were slowly added, biggest of all was the iTunes Store which was introduced with Version 4 of iTunes. The iTunes store allowed people for the first time to legally download music from a front end GUI for a very small cost, but included apples own DRM ( Digital Rights Management ) in the form of Fairplay meaning that a song bought from the iTunes store could not be played on more than 5 authenticated computer at once. But the iTunes store has grown a lot since this time and is now offering not only Music to be downloaded legally but also TV, Movies and Podcasts as well as the App Store becoming a massive success with the rise of the iPod Touch and the iPhone.