Anything that can download a file can download an .mp3. So are you saying it's OK to have no downloading ability at all? My FUCING RAZR FLIP PHONE COULD DOWNLOAD FILES!!!! are you fucving kidding me? I paid a thousand dollars for this braindead bull? How much more can Apple poiss me off? They have lost all brand loyalty from me. None left. None.
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Apple Removing Music Downloading Apps from App Store, Asking Developers to Change Apps
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Anything that can download a file can download an .mp3. So are you saying it's OK to have no downloading ability at all? My FUCING RAZR FLIP PHONE COULD DOWNLOAD FILES!!!! are you fucving kidding me? I paid a thousand dollars for this braindead bull? How much more can Apple poiss me off? They have lost all brand loyalty from me. None left. None.
I think they are just looking for these apps in the obvious places first before going further. If you wanted to make a catalog of all antivirus programs (and nothing similar was available), you would do a search for "antivirus" before you would think to include the virus scanner yahoo mail uses for attachments. Furthermore, the standalone browsers with other functions are not easy in-out cases and may be a lot more involved.
I deleted the last sentence because it is a red herring.
Of course it has, but keeping their App Store squeaky clean looks good and helps secure deals with media companies that push for "DRM or nothing", which may give them more exclusivity (see: The Beatles). It says""We don't actively support piracy." and "If you help us, we'll help you".
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, all I'm saying is that Apple knows exactly what they're doing.
You would be surprised. I had two people in the last month ask me how long iTunes Radio has been available and why they'd never noticed.
I should add that I don't work in a tech store or somewhere else where iTunes (or music in general) might come up in conversation more than it normally would.
Can anyone name an app that's actually been removed?
The article cites new search results for "music download" as the evidence that these apps are a sweeping target for removal. How do we know Apple didn't just change the search algorithm?
Does anyone know the name of a specific app that's been removed? Most of these apps are so generic that it's hard to know if a specific one has been removed or just changed name/icon since that search image from evolver.fm was taken two years ago.
Have any developers commented on this?
The article cites new search results for "music download" as the evidence that these apps are a sweeping target for removal. How do we know Apple didn't just change the search algorithm?
Does anyone know the name of a specific app that's been removed? Most of these apps are so generic that it's hard to know if a specific one has been removed or just changed name/icon since that search image from evolver.fm was taken two years ago.
Have any developers commented on this?
So should I then have to log in and log out of my iTunes account when ever i want to hear my own music since all my music is streamed via iCloud iTunes Match.
#convoluted
You paid $1000 and you can't pay $10 for an album...? Or $10 a month for Spotify, Rdio, Beats, etc...?
Also, yes, Safari should have the ability to download files, yes, but only Safari, and under your own risk, not to have an app that EXPLICITLY says is for downloading ILLEGAL music, that's all I'm saying.
Seriously?!
How is the idea that Apple would rather push iTunes or iTunes Radio vs some 3rd party app sinister? Maybe you live in an entirely different world than I do but to me that's the most LOGICAL reason. They're a business like any other. They want to push their products and services. To not do so would be illogical.
No
I think it's fine that Apple curates the platform, but to remove apps simply because they are of their competitors is stupid as hell. It's bad for consumers, and it makes people badmouth Apple. And aren't there monopoly laws against that kind of ****?
I think it's fine that Apple curates the platform, but to remove apps simply because they are of their competitors is stupid as hell. It's bad for consumers, and it makes people badmouth Apple. And aren't there monopoly laws against that kind of ****?
Have I misunderstood something?
Isn't the point that the apps that are being taken down are competing with iTunes downloads? Or have I misunderstood something?
Isn't the point that the apps that are being taken down are competing with iTunes downloads? Or have I misunderstood something?
Because you're downloading the video without the copyright holder's permission for one thing.
No I'm not, there are plenty of youtube to mp3 websites where you just copy and paste the youtube links and it converts it and gives you a downloadable mp3 file within seconds.
That's still illegal.
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iTunes does not compete with illegal activity.
No, running around in a shopping mall butt naked, high on meth and shooting people with a fully automatic assault rifle while verbally threatening the President's life is wildly illegal.
Just because it exists somewhere on the fringe of the internet. Doesn't make it either right, or legal.
Just wow. People like you are why Apple is forced into taking this action.
What action? This action is having no effect on me, I never used those apps. Is it illegal to stream music from YouTube in my car? No. Is it illegal to convert it to mp3 for future listening? Also no. As much as it bothers you, it's technically not illegal. It's about illegal as using a tape recorder to record songs off the radio.
That's not illegal, it's frowned upon. Like pleasuring yourself on an airplane.
Thanks a lot, bin Laden.
