Apple might be working on Music & TV apps for Windows, as per job listing

Apple is working on a new generation of media apps for Windows, as per a new job listing on LinkedIn. Even though Apple has killed off iTunes, and replaced it with Music, Podcasts and Television apps, the onetime iTunes app still exists on Windows.

iTunes is the most popular free app on the Microsoft Store for Windows, despite its low rating. Users use iTunes regularly for Apple Music, iPhone and iPad syncing, and Movies and TV prove purchases. For at present, Windows users take to use a browser to stream Apple TV+ content, which ways that they do not become the best-in-class experience that iOS, iPadOS and macOS users get. Dependency on the Apple TV+ website also means that users cannot download content to watch offline.

Every bit per the LinkedIn chore post, showtime spotted by Neowin, Apple posted a chore opening three weeks ago for 'Senior Software Engineer- Windows Media Apps'.

This is an extract from the chore post:

The Media Apps team is looking for a creative Senior Software Engineer to work on the adjacent generation of media apps for Windows. You volition help build innovative features that will delight millions of customers around the world.

In the job description, Apple specifies that UWP (Universal Windows Platform) experience is a large plus. This is interesting as Microsoft has not been focusing on UWP for some time at present, which pushed some users to even consider it expressionless. At such a time, if Apple is looking to build media apps like Goggle box or Music based on UWP, it ways that they would desire to bring the apps to Xbox as well. From the list of popular platforms that Apple has released its TV app on, gaming consoles similar Xbox and PlayStation have been obvious omissions.

Apple has been very ambitious with Apple Television set+ marketing and released apps for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac. For the first fourth dimension, Apple tree also released apps for Samsung Smart TVs, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.

Until Apple releases new media apps for Windows, users volition have to rely on tv.apple.com to stream Apple TV+ content.