The reports of ITUNES' death, it turns out, were somewhat exaggerated. APPLE confirmed Monday that the music management software everyone loves to hate will be moved to trash with the next major update of the Mac operating system this fall. But the ITUNES STORE isn't going away. If you're still looking, come October, for the MP3 version of "OLD TOWN ROAD," which will be in its JAMES HOLZHAUER-like 27th week at #1 (yes, I know), it will still be available for $1.29 on iTunes. And if you're wondering what happened to all the iTunes playlists you've been carefully curating since the turn of the century, they'll be waiting for you, assuming all goes right, in APPLE MUSIC, one of three specialized apps that will replace the sprawling mess that used to be your iTunes. (So wait, instead of having the Apple Music streaming service inside your iTunes, as you do now, you'll have your iTunes inside your Apple Music? Why, yes, sort of. As an added bonus, the iTunes Store will be hidden behind the app's view tab. You'll adapt.) And if you're a WINDOWS user, iTunes isn't going anywhere; you still get to use it, same as always, for better and for worse. So iTunes isn't dying so much as transitioning. But it's a big transition nonetheless, less the death of an app than the death of an idea. In addition to decluttering an old, bloated app, moving TV shows over here and podcasts over there, Apple is confirming what it and you have long known: Owning music and other content has lost; subscribing to it has won. The early 21st century holy trinity of iTunes app, iTunes Store and iPod has outlived its reason for being, even while each of its components continues to exist in one way or another. And hopefully will continue to exist for a long time. I still, at the very least, need a safe place to stash my PRINCE bootlegs. And a way to listen to them when my phone and wireless networks all go down. Which is when I need to hear them the most... The most important piece of music hardware you own, by a long shot, may be your earbuds. And not just because of how they sound... I don't for a second doubt the enormity of JAY-Z's wealth, which FORBES says has crossed the $1 billion line. But I automatically doubt any exact figures any media outlet tries to assign to any celebrity's net worth. So many assumptions in all such stories. So much speculation. So much they couldn’t possibly know. (Also: TIDAL, are you really worth a hundred million bucks?)... The rules of concert etiquette, according to TWITTER... RIP LAWRENCE LEATHERS.