Which is something that non-U2 fans didn't have to do before this stunt.
That's all really, it was never a big deal, but since we're told that Apple sweats the details to give the best customer experience, when they do something that put a lot of their customers out it gets attention. That's what happens when you put yourself on a pedestal. I'm sure they've learned their lesson, pretty much all of the press I've seen around this giveaway has been negative about the hubris.
It's not a big deal but you've spent the last week bitching about it.
Press is always hostile to Apple. Nobody knew or care that Samsung did something like this. Generally people on AI laugh this nonsense off but this time the hipster than thous are are feeling themselves "raped" by the inclusion of an album on their library which they don't like.
Even though they don't have to download it. Even though it will never appear in shuffle. Even though they can scroll past it, it's been "imposed" on their device ( actually it hasn't unlike say Passbook or the Podcast app). Now there is a script to remove something that isn't in your device and never was but will help you not have to scroll past it ever again if you didn't manage to find the switch which shows downloaded music only.
I find this very interesting. Apple announce the iWatch as 'their most personal device yet' but singularly fail to understand that to users an iPhone is an intimate device.
Inserting music into someones record collection without their permission violates that personal relationship between the user and the device.
If Apple continue with this kind of stunt they will kill the goose that laid the golden egg by breaking that important sense of intimacy.
It reeks of the kind of behaviour that Google has been guilty of in the past. Creepy behaviour that misunderstands the social and personal dimension of their products.
I would not mind at all if Apple inserted an Album by an artist I already had in my library, theres a very good chance I might like it. But to add one by an artist I do not have is a very risky thing to do.
As it happens I don't personally like U2, I have always found them fairly boring, but I don't feel violated in any way, but I know many people do. This will go down as one of Apples major errors in marketing.
Nothing was forced onto people, nothing was inserted without user consent. After easing your misunderstanding on the topic, please first understand the issue at hand before posting. Or better yet, don't post at all. Because your post might go down in history as one major error by a user on a public forum.
Go boil your head. Modern music is massively more varied, diverse and interesting than music from any decade previous. That statement has been true of every decade since pop music began, and will probably be true of every decade to come for the foreseeable future. U2 are old hat, were pretty old hat when they emerged, and are unlikely to be anything other than old hat at any time near present.
Not only do the millennials have no taste in music but they have poor manners as well. Not only do they look the gift horse in the mouth but they send the horse back.
Here's a lesson for you. Good music stands the test of time. Your so called varied, diverse and interesting are nothing more than a flash in the pan, one hit wonders that are soon forgotten. U2 have been around for 3 decades. They still sellout their tours, they still release new music, they still have millions of fans. So before you go trashing one of the greatest bands, please take a look at who you're comparing them against.
Nothing was forced onto people, nothing was inserted without user consent. After easing your misunderstanding on the topic, please first understand the issue at hand before posting. Or better yet, don't post at all. Because your post might go down in history as one major error by a user on a public forum.
I don't use iTunes unless I have to (the Windows version is the worst software ever released), so I'm not sure exactly what happened here.
I've seen dozens of freak-out tweets where people said, "how did this U2 album get on my phone, and why can't I delete it?" That doesn't sound like consent to me, but I don't see any summaries of what actually happened.
Not only do the millennials have no taste in music but they have poor manners as well. Not only do they look the gift horse in the mouth but they send the horse back.
Here's a lesson for you. Good music stands the test of time. Your so called varied, diverse and interesting are nothing more than a flash in the pan, one hit wonders that are soon forgotten. U2 have been around for 3 decades. They still sellout their tours, they still release new music, they still have millions of fans. So before you go trashing one of the greatest bands, please take a look at who you're comparing them against.
But people are stupid. Yes, that includes me. Except for this U2 part: those who don't have 'Automatic Download Apps/Music/Books' enabled and those without iTunes Match only get to see the little iCloud download icon shown So if aforementioned is enabled, yes, the album was downloaded, which makes a lot of sense to me. And even if I had the album automatically downloaded, I can delete it. Really don't understand the negativity on this issue.
Oh Apple, I really like you too, just not the band.
But people are stupid. Yes, that includes me. Except for this U2 part: those who don't have 'Automatic Download Apps/Music/Books' enabled and those without iTunes Match only get to see the little iCloud download icon shown So if aforementioned is enabled, yes, the album was downloaded, which makes a lot of sense to me. And even if I had the album automatically downloaded, I can delete it. Really don't understand the negativity on this issue.
Oh Apple, I really like you too, just not the band.
Well, you can see how people would consent to automatic downloads without a precedent for free albums being handed out, then feel that the album was forced on them since every other auto-downloaded album was an intentional purchase.
For example, it would be frustrating to be getting your kids marked up before a swim meet, trying to download the pdf heat-sheets, then suddenly realize that you can't download them because your phone is full. Then discover that there's a U2 album on there, and maybe the you have never deleted an album before... fumble with it, but still need to get the kids marked up for the meet, and it's 5:30 in the morning...
That's a valid point. In their defence, they cannot possibly make everyone happy. Plus all i's are on Apple; everything they say or do is meticulously investigated, in search of clues, in search of double meaning, in search of why others didn't do things the way they do. Look at the Internet; filled with blogs and crap-copy-reporting sites, trying to make a buck off of Apple.
There will always be scenarios where some people won't be happy with the way Apple does things. Like the 1GB RAM / Safari reloading tabs thing. But personally I doubt that the amount of people not wanting an auto download of U2's free album outweighs the number of people that are happy with it. But that's purely speculation on my part.
Would you like to have an ISIS beheading video or pee sex video (or a combination of both) in your iTunes library because it's free as well?
Okay, bad comparison.
Imagine somebody breaks in your house and places a gigantic pink ciramic cat. For free. If your not into ciramic cats, you are going to be mad about the fact they broke in and placed the damn thing.
If you like gigantic ciramic cats, you're probably going to forgive the burglary and enjoy the content.
U2 is a shit band so more people are focusing on the 'burglary' aspect of it.
It's about the principle. Don't clutter someone's personal library with music. It's people's stash. Music is very personal! Apple should know.
Utter psychosis. You’re going to visit your personal storage block of posters and happen to find a poster of U2 leaned up against the door, a note reading “free, from the management”.
Utter psychosis. You’re going to visit your personal storage block of posters and happen to find a poster of U2 leaned up against the door, a note reading “free, from the management”.
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Spam is free. You happy with that? Didn't think so, wise guy.
Au contraire.
I'm quite sure that God is taking note and fast-tracking these people to heaven; as long as they've been good, of course.
+infinity. Sorry SpamSandwich and other U2 lovers. I hope you'll see the light one day.
It's not a big deal but you've spent the last week bitching about it.
Press is always hostile to Apple. Nobody knew or care that Samsung did something like this. Generally people on AI laugh this nonsense off but this time the hipster than thous are are feeling themselves "raped" by the inclusion of an album on their library which they don't like.
Even though they don't have to download it. Even though it will never appear in shuffle. Even though they can scroll past it, it's been "imposed" on their device ( actually it hasn't unlike say Passbook or the Podcast app). Now there is a script to remove something that isn't in your device and never was but will help you not have to scroll past it ever again if you didn't manage to find the switch which shows downloaded music only.
Time to shut up.
Har.
I am offended with U2's political views. Never will a U2 song be part of my playlist.
If you’re going to be THIS stupid, why not just stay on websites where people actually believe you?
Inserting music into someones record collection without their permission violates that personal relationship between the user and the device.
If Apple continue with this kind of stunt they will kill the goose that laid the golden egg by breaking that important sense of intimacy.
It reeks of the kind of behaviour that Google has been guilty of in the past. Creepy behaviour that misunderstands the social and personal dimension of their products.
I would not mind at all if Apple inserted an Album by an artist I already had in my library, theres a very good chance I might like it. But to add one by an artist I do not have is a very risky thing to do.
As it happens I don't personally like U2, I have always found them fairly boring, but I don't feel violated in any way, but I know many people do. This will go down as one of Apples major errors in marketing.
Nothing was forced onto people, nothing was inserted without user consent. After easing your misunderstanding on the topic, please first understand the issue at hand before posting. Or better yet, don't post at all. Because your post might go down in history as one major error by a user on a public forum.
Go boil your head. Modern music is massively more varied, diverse and interesting than music from any decade previous. That statement has been true of every decade since pop music began, and will probably be true of every decade to come for the foreseeable future. U2 are old hat, were pretty old hat when they emerged, and are unlikely to be anything other than old hat at any time near present.
Not only do the millennials have no taste in music but they have poor manners as well. Not only do they look the gift horse in the mouth but they send the horse back.
Here's a lesson for you. Good music stands the test of time. Your so called varied, diverse and interesting are nothing more than a flash in the pan, one hit wonders that are soon forgotten. U2 have been around for 3 decades. They still sellout their tours, they still release new music, they still have millions of fans. So before you go trashing one of the greatest bands, please take a look at who you're comparing them against.
Nothing was forced onto people, nothing was inserted without user consent. After easing your misunderstanding on the topic, please first understand the issue at hand before posting. Or better yet, don't post at all. Because your post might go down in history as one major error by a user on a public forum.
I don't use iTunes unless I have to (the Windows version is the worst software ever released), so I'm not sure exactly what happened here.
I've seen dozens of freak-out tweets where people said, "how did this U2 album get on my phone, and why can't I delete it?" That doesn't sound like consent to me, but I don't see any summaries of what actually happened.
Not only do the millennials have no taste in music but they have poor manners as well. Not only do they look the gift horse in the mouth but they send the horse back.
Here's a lesson for you. Good music stands the test of time. Your so called varied, diverse and interesting are nothing more than a flash in the pan, one hit wonders that are soon forgotten. U2 have been around for 3 decades. They still sellout their tours, they still release new music, they still have millions of fans. So before you go trashing one of the greatest bands, please take a look at who you're comparing them against.
But people are stupid. Yes, that includes me. Except for this U2 part: those who don't have 'Automatic Download Apps/Music/Books' enabled and those without iTunes Match only get to see the little iCloud download icon shown
Oh Apple, I really like you too, just not the band.
But people are stupid. Yes, that includes me. Except for this U2 part: those who don't have 'Automatic Download Apps/Music/Books' enabled and those without iTunes Match only get to see the little iCloud download icon shown
Oh Apple, I really like you too, just not the band.
Well, you can see how people would consent to automatic downloads without a precedent for free albums being handed out, then feel that the album was forced on them since every other auto-downloaded album was an intentional purchase.
For example, it would be frustrating to be getting your kids marked up before a swim meet, trying to download the pdf heat-sheets, then suddenly realize that you can't download them because your phone is full. Then discover that there's a U2 album on there, and maybe the you have never deleted an album before... fumble with it, but still need to get the kids marked up for the meet, and it's 5:30 in the morning...
That's a valid point. In their defence, they cannot possibly make everyone happy. Plus all i's are on Apple; everything they say or do is meticulously investigated, in search of clues, in search of double meaning, in search of why others didn't do things the way they do. Look at the Internet; filled with blogs and crap-copy-reporting sites, trying to make a buck off of Apple.
There will always be scenarios where some people won't be happy with the way Apple does things. Like the 1GB RAM / Safari reloading tabs thing. But personally I doubt that the amount of people not wanting an auto download of U2's free album outweighs the number of people that are happy with it. But that's purely speculation on my part.
Okay, bad comparison.
Imagine somebody breaks in your house and places a gigantic pink ciramic cat. For free. If your not into ciramic cats, you are going to be mad about the fact they broke in and placed the damn thing.
If you like gigantic ciramic cats, you're probably going to forgive the burglary and enjoy the content.
U2 is a shit band so more people are focusing on the 'burglary' aspect of it.
It's about the principle. Don't clutter someone's personal library with music. It's people's stash. Music is very personal! Apple should know.
Utter psychosis. You’re going to visit your personal storage block of posters and happen to find a poster of U2 leaned up against the door, a note reading “free, from the management”.
Utter psychosis. You’re going to visit your personal storage block of posters and happen to find a poster of U2 leaned up against the door, a note reading “free, from the management”.
No; he's right.