Apple is shutting down iTunes: what this means for you

Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Buzzfeed's social media editor and q's online columnist. Every week, he brings us up to speed on the big headlines taking over the internet right now. This week, he joins host Tom Power to talk about Apple's decision to phase out iTunes.

The iTunes music store was introduced in 2003 when file sharing sites were really popular and listeners were downloading music illegally for free. Within six years, iTunes was responsible for a quarter of all music sales in the U.S. and sold 69 per cent of all digital music.

Abdelmahmoud unpacks Apple's decision to get rid of iTunes and what it might mean for you.

— Produced by Tyrone Callender