razormaid

I hate that they killed off cover flow. We're a record company with a catalogue of 6,000+ songs and built our entire library for people to buy on HD. We spent hundreds of man hours arranging each albums songs in individual playlists for each album, then created a cool "off into infinity look". They wiped it out with their iTunes 11 redesign. It used to look like this:

For the love of God. Icahn's gone we got an early Christmas present. Let's pray the stock hits $80 then Apple take your $600 billion and buy it back!!!  

Take this company away from wall street so we never have to deal with this crash and burn they do to us on a daily basis. We announce great additions to current product and because it didn't make coffee and shoot out pixie dust they considered the upgrade a disaster.

Take back Apple. Allow people who actually want to invest in a private company to do just that but the idea that they pay dividends to the people who hate  us along side the same people that support us drives me crazy. 

Go private and return to focusing on creating NEW product again. Stop with all the PC (political correct) and gay issues and get back to work. Tim keeps saying he wants to 'leave it better than I found it do it through new ground breaking product we didn't know we needed like the iPhone and iPad.

We don't need a CEO more concerned about some bathroom law in another state. Worry about what "the next big thing" will be the they way we got the iPhone, iPad, etc. I'm not going to do the "Steve was so much greater" rant, BUT he did make sure things got done and although this is a team effort I just would like to hear more about new products and less about what the stock is doing and which bathroom I get to use in the Carolina's. Sorry. Not very PC of me but enough is enough with all this green crap. Release a laptop the public would actually like to buy to replace our  now 5+year old 17" laptop. I'm in the music business. Ever tried remixing on a 12" laptop?  Lol please!

Don't let the door hit you in the arse you pig!  Thank god he's gone!

Actually the reason this is an actual legit lawsuit has to do with the whole bait and switch thing. TIDAL and West used West's album with the promise of "sign up to our flailing going out of business any minute service and well promise you not only West's album exclusively but other artists too!

There's the problem. 

Its actually TIDAL who should be serving papers to West and sue him. If they do that quickly (and they should) then it looks like they weren't in on this together and TIDAL will look like the victim. but if they don't then this "flip flop" of exclusivity seriously hurts ALL music services because it will make it that much harder to get ANYONE to sign up to any service. 

Seriously Apple should NOT have allowed this album onto Apple Music or iTunes Store itself. They should not have come near this project with a 10 ft pole. They should have held firm to avoid being associated with this mess. 

Now its a trust issue. When any service places their reputation on the line promising "exclusivity" to get people to sign up to a service they also need to make sure the contract offered to THEM by that artist is iron clad. TIDAL was going nowhere fast and a lot of rich bitches dumped their cash into this streaming service because it offered to pay the artist (aka themselves) more money. 

Coming from this industry myself, when I heard that the rIch ARTISTS were creating a service then touted it as "were the service gonna make sure artists get more money..."  I thought "Huh??"  Did no one pick up on this??  Artists like Madonna who don't need any more cash is investing with other trillionairs to make sure they pay themselves more money per streaming and the people signing up are like "yeah!! Artists yeah man totally. Give them more money yeah!!"  Dude? I don't know how to break this to ya but it's YOURS money you're giving them not some corporation collection fees then passing them on to the artists. LOL 

This is is like that South Park episode where Metallica went on strike!  LOL 

These new subscribers were lured in and signed up for TIDAL being told by idiots like West (ONE OF THE OWNERS OF TIDAL - hello??) "I'm only letting you have my album bro". The only problem was no one was buying it they grabbed it illegal minutes later. Then that trash with the huge butt he's now married to needed some new clothes and he realize "damn! Inpicked the wrong service to go exclusive with!" so he gives it to Apple with additional/ different songs?  (You do realize you are an owner of tidal and you just screwed yourself jackass?)

In the music business this is called "double dipping" 
I think the subscribers may actually win this one. Odd as that sounds. They were lied to - whether by TIDAL, West or both and both promised and given a different product when West changed it giving the new version to Apple when reviews thought the first version (did what he does with his French boyfriend) - SUCK!

(Hey Apple... In the future when people scream they're not letting you have their product <Adele> when Rhett exhaust their resources don't take tgeir goods. Push it back at them and say "that's ok..." Especially when it turns out it was crappy to begin with  look like the adult in the room and stop caving to greed. 

I totally agree. This reeks of "mo money mo money mo money" searches at the top. How about the more money you spend the further down the list you go??  Because that's what will happen to people just starting out. The really cool apps from people who have been "just getting by" will loose out to big money. This is a terrible idea!

how about list it by creativity. Those apps that are truly unique at the top and the 10,000 versions of Angry Birds at the bottom. 

I personally look for apps listed as editors favorites because I trust what actual Apple employees think is "cool, innovated and different" and so far I have not been proven wrong. But companies with deep pockets who can push their way to the top???  I'll never find those cool ads when there's billions on the App Store.