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The iTunes Movie Trailers website (and later iPhone app) has been a staple for movie buffs or anybody simply eager to know what’s arising for many years, however these days have ended; Apple has shuttered iTunes Movie Trailers and directed customers who need to see future trailers to its TV app.
Throughout the 2000s, the website was the default vacation spot for a lot of people. It was first launched as a type of promotion for Apple’s QuickTime structure, and it was the very best place to look at high-quality trailers earlier than YouTube got here alongside. The iPhone app launched in 2011, and that was additionally standard—at the least initially.
If you visited the website in the previous few years, although, you in all probability seen that it was a time capsule for internet designs and Apple aesthetics and branding of a bygone period. It was nonetheless getting new trailers usually, however the design had not been up to date in ages, and some options on the website (like the power to trace theater showtimes) regularly broke.
It is smart. Since iTunes Movie Trailers launched, YouTube turned the de facto vacation spot for on-demand internet video, QuickTime waned, and at-home streaming took over, with film trailers often out there in the listings in streaming apps. In that context, it is shocking it took this lengthy for Apple to make this modification.
The previous website now redirects to a trailer listing throughout the Apple TV internet app, and the iPhone app merely launches to a principally clean display that prompts customers to obtain the TV app from the App Store. You also can discover the trailers throughout the TV app by navigating to the “Store” tab and scrolling right down to “Watch Latest Trailers.”
Unfortunately, the trailer part of the TV app lacks a lot of the options that iTunes Movie Trailers had—there are not any sorting choices, for instance.
So pour one out for a very basic internet service—a relic of one other period that was not that way back however in some way appears like one other epoch of the Earth. You is perhaps shocked it was nonetheless round, however it’s unhappy to see it go.