Apple Music Blackout for Tuesday

[LowellLvl]

I find this to be an absolutely terrible move. If I buy a car, I want the car. As a paid subscriber to Apple Music, I don't understand why I wasn't notified about this personally, or credited for the day in which I will not be able to have what I paid for. This is beyond ridiculous. I can't even believe this is even legal of them.

Look - it's a terrible thing what happened. But why am I now the victim of this?

 

[actcyclist]

I don’t mimd, it’s just a day. However, a company as rich as Apple.. keeping the revenue is a dick move. surely Apple makes enough money to donate a days revenue from Apple music, if not more.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I appreciate the message, and I don't mind for a day. You can still use the search function to find whatever you want and listen to your library. If you want to discover new music, you can listen to Beats1 for the day. I don't think there is any point to crediting everyone back 33 cents.

 

[Marc_S]

rather than think of yourself as a victim, how about considering yourself as a supporter and foregoing the few cents cost?

 

[tlnargi]

Interesting move from Apple. I guess this also means a lot of the music on there that glorifies violence can’t be listened to either.

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Really dumb move. Not everyone lives in that bad joke of a country, and I've already donated a lot to my local BLM and indigenous groups. I don't need a music app politicizing itself and getting rid of most of the features that I'm paying for. Where's my refund, huh? Spotify isn't pulling this stunt today, why don't I just switch? I bet lots of people are having that same thought.

Not to mention, they just played a song called "911 is a joke" - is this really the position Apple wants to hold? Is antagonizing all police really the correct move towards resolving racial inequality? Do you really want to call 95/99/whatever it is % of cops that are perfectly good people "a joke" just because a tiny tiny minority are terrible people?

So being racist towards black people because a minority are currently looting and destroying businesses and lives is unforgivable, but calling all cops a joke because a minority are terrible is promoted by a trillion-dollar company.

Loving the double standards, but I guess i shouldn't be surprised considering Apple is an American country, and "America" doesn't even close to currently mean what it once did.

 

[Kram Sacul]

It’s virtue signaling spam. It’ll be gone.