Fuggin Apple

[PorkChopSandwiches]

The pushed the new U2 album to everyone's iPhone whether you wanted it or not :lol: That shit would piss me off

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/wtf-is-a-u2/


Seriously. Go look. Depending on your iCloud setting, U2’s latest album might be sitting in the Music app, ready to play. Otherwise, the album is most likely still shown, available to download from iCloud from your iPhone, iPad, or iTunes app. Worse yet, it’s rather difficult to rid your phone and iTunes account of the album.

Yesterday at the iPhone 6 launch event, Bono and Tim Cook jointly unleashed this scourge on the iTunes world by daintily touching the tips of their fingers. Seriously, it was awkward. Cook called the album release the largest in history — something that’s easily obtainable when you push it to millions and millions of devices.

Now, Songs of Innocence is everywhere, seemingly on nearly every iPhone and iPod and iTunes account. I, for one, do not want this on my iPhone, but there is little that can be done.

Sadly you cannot totally purge the songs from your iTunes account. You can only hide the songs from the local iTunes account, but they will continue to live for all of eternity on your iCloud. Thanks, Apple.


:facepalm:

[Hal-9000]

wow Apple sounds like the new big brother....

still don't have that infernal POS software (iTunes) on any computer or device :dance:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

We will fill your library with what we deem fit

[Hal-9000]

and extract any and all personal info that your phone provides...browsing habits, contact numbers, where you are at any given time..

[Muddy]

Oh wow.. what a crock!

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The pushed the new U2 album to everyone's iPhone whether you wanted it or not :lol: That shit would piss me off

Apple knows what is best for you :hand:

[redred]

http://i.imgur.com/s7teVTx.png

[Goofy]

wow Apple sounds like the new big brother....

still don't have that infernal POS software (iTunes) on any computer or device :dance:

Ditto :cheers: I like the 'drag and drop from desktop' method for transferring music to my phone :tup: Thankfully Samsung don't force me to install any viruses before i can use their products :D

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Ditto :cheers: I like the 'drag and drop from desktop' method for transferring music to my phone :tup: Thankfully Samsung don't force me to install any viruses before i can use their products :D

Funny I was just giving my son shit because he has no music on his iphone because of itunes fucking up, I said I just drag mp3's onto mine and Im done :)

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http://i.imgur.com/qlJQXYc.gif

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've never had any crApple software on any device, ever.

[Hal-9000]

I installed iTunes about 3 computers ago...and then tried to remove it


One free program identified it as malware so I said screw it and formatted/reinstalled windows :lol:

[Godfather]

So... is Apple giving away U2 Albums... pro-Bono? :bananahi:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

So... is Apple giving away U2 Albums... pro-Bono? :bananahi:

:facepalm:

[Hal-9000]

So... is Apple giving away U2 Albums... pro-Bono? :bananahi:


:cheers:

[Godfather]

Can you imagine how much money could be made...

http://i.imgur.com/UE8YDDt.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

BBC News


http://i.imgur.com/zyPiaLw.jpg

Apple has released a tool to remove U2's new album from its customers' iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free.

Some users had complained about the fact that Songs of Innocence had automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.

It had not been immediately obvious to many of the account holders how to delete the tracks.

The US tech firm is now providing a one-click removal button.

"Some customers asked for the ability to delete 'Songs of Innocence' from their library, so we set up itunes.com/soi-remove to let them easily do so. Any customer that needs additional help should contact AppleCare," spokesman Adam Howorth told the BBC.

http://i.imgur.com/JfMJsGU.jpg

Users who remove the album and do not download it again before 13 October will be charged for the 11 tracks if they subsequently try to add them again.

"It's embarrassing for Apple that it's had a bit of a backlash," commented Ian Maude from the media consultancy Enders Analysis.

"It was giving something away to its customers - so that part was really good - but what it should have probably done was make it optional. Not everybody's a U2 fan as it's just discovered.

"Is there any long-term impact? No. It's moved very quickly to fix the problem."

'Blood, sweat and tears'

Apple made the album available to about 500 million iTunes customers in 119 countries to coincide with its iPhone 6 and Watch launch event last week.

U2's singer Bono acknowledged at the time that not everyone would appreciate the gift.

"People who haven't heard our music, or weren't remotely interested, might play us for the first time because we're in their library," he wrote on the band's site.

"And for the people out there who have no interest in checking us out, look at it this way… the blood, sweat and tears of some Irish guys are in your junk mail."

Bono added that Apple had "paid" for the giveaway, and reports have suggested that prime placement of banner ads publicising the album on the iTunes store and other publicity provided by the tech firm might be worth as much as $100m (£62m).

Sales of earlier U2 albums have re-entered iTunes' charts and the band has also raised its profile ahead of an expected tour as well as a planned follow-up album called Songs of Experience.

The new tracks on Songs of Innocence have, however, split the critics.

The Drowned in Sound site suggested that U2 no longer had it in them to make a great album, adding that giving away songs for free had "somewhat devalued a record that cost six years of their lives and a lot of money to make".

But Rolling Stone magazine gave the album its maximum score, saying that it was "a triumph of dynamic, focussed renaissance".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W4bZX70C8o

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:rofl:

[Goofy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W4bZX70C8o

Doesn't look like Perth to me :-k