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Apple Creates Tool for Users to Delete Unwanted U2 Album
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Ungrateful? No one asked for the album. What if it was some country music or rap or something you don't like.
To be honest I would not care. I just wouldn't listen to the track.
Whiny, "entitled" people who have aspects of their personalities and/or lives which they don't like but haven't yet dealt with, often react in this silly, juvenile manner. I pity people with no meaning or focus big enough in their life to channel their precious gift of a life into, to distract them from such non-issues as this. I also pray these same people never have REAL problems, but if they do, I'm sure it will work out for the best, helping them to re-focus their hearts on what actually matters.
I'm not mad about it. I'm just saying that some people are since it was added to their accounts without permission. If the music choice was changed to something people love to hate, then the people on here probably wouldn't be saying they're ungrateful.
Look at it this way...
What if you and a VEGAN friend went into a restaurant to grab lunch and that day, they just HAPPEN to be giving way free samples of there new MINI CHEESBURGER Sliders.
The waiter comes by and says, "Hi guys! Here are your free MINI CHEESEBURGERS! Today they are on the house! " If you like MINI CHEESEBURGERS, you're gonna look like this...
But your Vegan friend is gonna look like this....
Just because something is popular, liked by most people and given away for free does NOT mean that everyone is going appreciate or value the gesture, no matter how we'll intended. Expressing that you're uncomfortable with getting something sent your way that you never wanted, nor never asked for does not make you ungrateful.
I don't know what kind of friends you choose to have, but my friends would say "That's extremely kind of you, but no thank you" - not express some ungrateful, "offended" body language.
I didn't throw a "hissy fit" when I received access to the new U2 album for free.
I wouldn't throw a "hissy fit" if I received free Beatles music in my list of purchases.
My post was a direct response to the person assuming that just because a person may not be a fan of U2's music, that "there is something wrong with them."
But you really don't!
That's why this is so senseless!
If you don't want the music taking up any of your storage space, you could always delete the tracks any time. All that's left is the cloud-based listing showing you're entitled to re-download them, if you choose. (Well, unless you're one of those people who left the OPTION on to auto-download all purchased music. But hey, here's an example of why you might want to turn that off!)
That's why this is so senseless!
If you don't want the music taking up any of your storage space, you could always delete the tracks any time. All that's left is the cloud-based listing showing you're entitled to re-download them, if you choose. (Well, unless you're one of those people who left the OPTION on to auto-download all purchased music. But hey, here's an example of why you might want to turn that off!)
I don't really follow U2, and I'd forgotten about this freebie. I'm going to download it now, LOL.
I wish they would let me do this with other music. My sister bought a lot of cRAP and I want it out of my account forever!!!!!!!
I guess all the people in here whining that it is fine did not have the album automatically down on to their phone taking up the entirety of the remaining space on the flash drive and brick their phone since the operating system could not write to the drive.
Which is great when all my RSA/two factor authentication applications are on there that are needed on a daily basis.
A new iPhone 6 will not be my next purchase.
Which is great when all my RSA/two factor authentication applications are on there that are needed on a daily basis.
A new iPhone 6 will not be my next purchase.
This is actually a good album. Some people desperately try to be young and hip and now and accepted in their peer group.
Yep, point is. I suspect lots more would be even more unhappy. Could you imagine a free Gangsta Rap track, (clean one), thered be plenty of people up in arms.
Whats telling is that they even had to make a tool in the first place.
First it shows the uproar and second a tool", really?
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That one is very nice.
Rumored Apple paid U2 $100m. Rumor though.. everyone knows records sales don't make as much money as touring. Even the best of times in the music industry 80-90s. I don't know if any Artists made $100m from one album (sales alone).