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All of the applications run in Mac OS X. Early versions of iTunes run in Mac OS Classic. Only iTunes 4.1 and later runs in Microsoft Windows. Apple may have allowed Windows users to use iTunes so they could take advantage of Apple's iTunes Music Store.
iTunes handles MP3 music files and supports other formats as well. iTunes 4 offers access to the new iTunes Music Store, which offers thousands of songs for download from hundreds of artists for 99 cents.
iPhoto is a simple photo editor that lets users edit their digital photos. iPhoto allows for photo album creation for your pictures for display on the Internet or CD.
iMovie is a video editor that you can use with digital video. The process of film capture by a digital camera in via Firewire is automated, with iMovie allowing you to chop up your video, add special effects, reorganize it and send it to iDVD for burning.
iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes are separately available for free download through Apple's website. iDVD is only available through iLife, and when bundled with a DVD-recording computer.
iLife is the latest in a line of both hardware and software products which are part of a "digital lifestyle". After his arrival back at Apple, Steve Jobs began speaking of a person's Macintosh being the center, or hub, of their digital lifestyle. The original iMac was the first step in developing this lifestyle. It put a new face on not only the mac, but computing in general as PC companies began to change their form factor designs as well.
These products are designed for intercompatibility. iTunes files can be added to iMovie's films, iPhoto can send images to iMovie, and iDVD can accept all this content and organize it and burn it out to DVD.