The rumor wasn't true anyway. Actually though, when you say we used to buy music you mean we used to buy CDs, some of us still want to buy music - just finding it's easier to download a file rather than have tons of CDs take up space (I live in an apartment so appreciate the space saving).
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Apple Aiming to End iTunes Music Downloads in Two Years [Update: Apple Says 'Not True']
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It's amazing how people take every report on MacRumors as instant fact and then go absolutely in sane about how bad Apple are.
Then a few hours later Apple come out and say "no, this isn't happening"
Then a few hours later Apple come out and say "no, this isn't happening"
Well, at least I buy vinyl and CDs and have never spent a single buck on digital music (and won't, for that matter). Even if Apple/Labels/whomever would randomly decide that everything now will be streaming-exclusive content (something probably coming before Apple shutting anything down), I still have thousands of "old" records to buy & collect. Score!
Relax everyone, what they actually said, is that they are aiming to make Apple Music UI usable within 2 years....
The original article was more believable than that.
Anyone remember the exact date when MacRumors went from being Apple's biggest fans to their biggest trolls?
Macrumors, Sep 22, 2014:
"So why would Apple plan to shut down Beats Music, as a TechCrunch headline reports?
Answer: It's not.
Tom Neumayr, says the TechCrunch story is "not true", but wouldn't elaborate."
This is why I'm glad I didn't sell all my CDs in the last yard sale. Buy a disc, load it on computer, disc goes into closet ... instant backup!
Maybe us old timers are getting through to the yungins that paying full price for 1/3 of a product is a crock of ...
If their standard was to sell me ALAC for their normal price, then I would have considered purchases.
But paying CD prices for chopped up, limited and compressed files? Give me a break. The blowback was bound to happen once the kids got old enough to understand what a rip off it is purchasing from iTunes.
Buy CDs, rip them, back them up, and then keep your CDs as hard copy back ups. Then, compress to your hearts content depending on your device.
Streaming? Meh. I guess it will catch on
If their standard was to sell me ALAC for their normal price, then I would have considered purchases.
But paying CD prices for chopped up, limited and compressed files? Give me a break. The blowback was bound to happen once the kids got old enough to understand what a rip off it is purchasing from iTunes.
Buy CDs, rip them, back them up, and then keep your CDs as hard copy back ups. Then, compress to your hearts content depending on your device.
Streaming? Meh. I guess it will catch on
It's amazing how people take every report on MacRumors as instant fact and then go absolutely in sane about how bad Apple are.
Then a few hours later Apple come out and say "no, this isn't happening"
The fact Apple would go out of its way to quell a rumor about such an important feature of its business, all but gurantees the headphone jack is going to disappear on the next iPhone.
So, not true in "2 years". In 3 years then it could be true.
This will never happen. How many millions of iPod's have they sold. The lawsuits this would bring about would be staggering. And not all areas of the US have internet or even cellular signal. Rubbish.
Perhaps Apple put this idea out there, saw the huge number of negative comments on here, and quickly reversed themselves!
Then a few hours later Apple come out and say "no, this isn't happening"
Apple didn't actually deny it. They only stated that it would not be in two years.
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It also could be true in one year
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No, because it was reported "Neumayr wouldn't expand on that comment, except to make it clear that he was responding to both timelines proposed in today's story from Digital Music News" and the second time line was for it to end in 3-4 years.
It's amazing how people take every report on MacRumors as instant fact and then go absolutely in sane about how bad Apple are.
Then a few hours later Apple come out and say "no, this isn't happening"
Of course, in 6 months, those same people won't care about facts, but will still say 'Apple yanked iTunes downloads, and only put them back after people complained. I bet they'll do it again soon! Never trust Apple.'
It also could be that 'Apple' was just one engineer out of 10 in a meeting that brought up this idea, and the other 9 engineers said 'No'. Then someone in the meeting leaked this.
Not to mention that selling your CDs, while still having all your music on your computer would be classified as stealing (since the person buying the CD now owns the copy of the music).