NME: Don’t mourn the death of iTunes. It was crap

Although it kind of lives on in another form, iTunes as we know it is a thing of the past... iTunes was exciting during its inception, and even beyond its heyday, in the late noughties and early noughteens, when streaming services weren’t widely available on mobiles, so it still seemed novel to be able to buy any music in the world – imagine! – from the safety of your sofa. But the writing was already on the wall when Spotify launched in 2008 - NME comments on Apple's decision to put an end to iTunes (well, actually, it lives on as Apple Music).