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Apple Creates Tool for Users to Delete Unwanted U2 Album
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Or underestimated the modern and good taste. Anyhow, they should do this with some of those stock apps too.
Yeah I hated when Windows forced that Sample Music into Windows Media Player when I installed it. Who likes Beck???
It's already (and always has been) possible to hide purchases (including the U2 free album: )
How to hide the free U2 album from your iTunes library
Exactly. Make the album iTunes only for the first few weeks. Make it free, fine. Just don't push it to people's iTunes library when they didn't ask for it.
Maybe if Apple got with the present rather than 5 years ago and offered 32gb as entry level storage on their iDevices, or indeed the option of an SD card it wouldn't matter. But since they're tight, money-grabbing bastards in this area space is at a premium for many and they might not want some crappy, past-it, political wankers of "rock" album in place of some music they might actually like.
Pull yourself out of Apple's backside for a moment and pretend they were Samsung forcing music onto people's devices, you'd be singing a completely different tune.
Funny because this is frequently an argument that extreme Apple fans use against Android fans: "so many Android phones have junk apps!"
This is the EXACT SAME IDEA.
So, no it doesn't take up space, but the fact it was a marketing deal that was forced to users is the problem.
w00master
Hi - Just don't play it - people are truly ungrateful - I am happy as can be - I won't have to pay $10 for a U2 album I would have ended up purchasing anyway.
Oh, and there is no such things as free. The cost of this is worked into the cost of the hardware and software somewhere along the line.
Ungrateful? No one asked for the album. What if it was some country music or rap or something you don't like.
Exactly. I don't want a bunch of U2 garbage popping up on my iTunes Genius stuff. Yuck.
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More times than the album was purposefully downloaded.
Yes, I do, we all do. You're saying this to somebody on a forum about expensive gadgets.
And to me this is really about dignity and autocracy (again, I know these words are a bit too much in this case, but there are no weaker ones that say the same thing). I decide what I want and what I don't want, and I won't get on my knees just because somebody offered me something for free. And I know it's not important, but I stand for myself always, whether it's important or not. It's about integrity.
So next time, if Apple makes a deal with Verizon to auto install VZ Navigator on iPhone 6... you won't complain right?
Because... first world problems...
w00master
Automatic downloads? Just one of those features you disable immediately, like reversed scrolling and double-clicking windows to minimize.
Why on earth would you disable reverse scrolling?
Very true. Personally while I'm sure I've heard some of their songs, I wouldn't know it if I did. I have nothing against them, but if it were say, Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber being pushed onto my iPhone taking up 100s of MegaBytes of space that I could otherwise use for [insert joke here], I'd actually be pretty upset.
I'd also feel like my iPhone had been sort of violated.
If I broke into Apple's servers and inserted some code, how would that be viewed? Today, electronic accounts are treated very similar to physical locations in our society. It's illegal to break into a company's servers just like it's illegal to break into their store. I'm NOT saying Apple did anything illegal - just explaining why....YES, I'm comparing someone breaking into my house with Apple messing with my iTunes account.
This is the kind of thing you complain about when you wake up in a good mood, there's no line at Starbucks and the barista spells your name correctly. The weather outside is perfect and your house is all clean and sparkly. That's when you're sitting there thinking to yourself, how can I include a little drama into my day?
Like I asked in another post.
So, next time if Apple makes a deal with VZ to auto install VZ Navigator on all iPhone 6's for VZW, you won't complain... right?
RIIIIGHT.
This. Is. The. Same. Exact. Thing.
A marketing DEAL to FORCE something on users. Period.
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