iTunes 11 Is Coming In September, Will Be Rewritten From The Ground Up [Rumor]

John Brownlee (11:47 am PDT, Jul 29 2011)

iTunes 11 Is Coming In September, Will Be Rewritten From The Ground Up [Rumor]

One of the perpetual complaints levied at Apple over the years is the fact that iTunes is a bloated mess of an app that tries to do too many things at once to maintain Apple-style elegance.

No doubt Apple would love to address these concerns, but what it would take is a complete overhaul and rewriting of the software from the ground-up. Give how much of Apple’s business links into iTunes — everything from apps, to music purchases, to iBooks, to iPhone, iPod and iPad syncing — that’s a prohibitive task.

A prohibitive task, according to reports, that Apple’s already in the thick of.

According to a “reliable source” speaking to iDownload Blog, September will see the debut of iTunes 11, a version of iTunes that will have been rewritten from the ground up with an updated UI and better iCloud integration.

From what we’re hearing, the UI would be much more cleaner and “slick.” iCloud is also going to be more closely integrated with iTunes. Rather than the iTunes Store being essentially a web browser, the Store will actually be integrated into the entire app— much like Spotify is currently.

We’re also hearing that iCloud backups will be integrated into iTunes. This means if you back up your iDevice to iCloud, that same backup will be stored locally on your computer. Also, app data from iCloud will be synced closely with iTunes. For example, if you beat a level in Angry Birds, that level data will be synced to iCloud and then to your iTunes library.

It sounds plausible. Right now, devs are using iTunes 10.5 to test iOS 5 Beta, but much of the iCloud functionality hasn’t been rolled out to that version of iTunes yet. It’s possible Apple is holding back a big update to iTunes until the September iPod event, and certainly, the addition of iCloud could certainly warrant a total redesign.

That said, I’d want to see the credentials on iDownloadBlog’s source before betting on this one.

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  • Jamal Deemer

    I think some time in the future, the app store won’t be part of iTunes. Now that there’s iCloud, it makes sense that apps for each device should be purchased from that device. Having an iPhone/iPad app store inside of iTunes is not very intuitive. It would be nice to see iTunes be freed of some of these responsibilities thanks to iCloud. 

  • Anonymous

    iTunes works great.
    Which means Apple will definitely mess with it. :(

  • http://twitter.com/koolmobile Arslan Azmat

    Probably its launched along with iPhone 5

  • jongar jabbar

    itunes sux
    thats all I am going to say

    itunes store also sux
    even though it works very well if you know exactly what you want to buy
    unlike amazon, its very difficult to browse and get information on
    the product you want to buy

    not to mention sometimes loads in the wrong way
    and sometimes a website shows up instead of the store

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234838173 Finlay MacArthur

      Quiet agree, I think It’s a bag of poo.

  • Colin McCready

    It’s a shame that many of those people below who do not experience the very poor performance of iTunes themselves are either denying the existance/scale of the problem, or trying to blame it on external problems such as Windows malware.
    Get over it guys!  A very large number of people find iTunes a significantly poorly performing application.  If you don’t – then great.  I’m happy for you.  But don’t pretend that that is universal.
    I for one have several fast (and slower) PCs which can easily handle some pretty intensive applications – yet iTunes’ UI performance is appalling.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bhat.shyam Shyam Bhat

    Its high time itunes has a messaging client integrated to store and keep a track of the messages from my iPhone. i have thousands and thousands of messages that i cannot afford to delete and read it from my mac to take a stroll down the memory lane #wish 

  • Anonymous

    it’s about time!

  • Anonymous

    Start with a better logo.

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  • mai duc chung

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  • mai duc chung

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  • mai duc chung

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  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

  • mai duc chung

    The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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