Apple Store iOS App Updated With Free Holiday Playlist

[dbanderson1]

Can't find app

I'm on my iPhone 5C and can't find this app in the app store or iTunes ... what gives. Is it called Holiday Playlist... because I get zero results.

 

[davidjearly]

This isn't about being PC. Holiday is a more accurate term, and that's coming from a Brit who generally despises such 'Americanisms'.

Many people do not associate this time of year with Christ, and quite rightly so, given that it has absolutely nothing to do with Christ (in a factual sense).

To be honest, who actually cares?

 

[parseckadet]

Anyone else getting a dialog saying you need to use a different account to download it?

 

[Blaze3555]

Yeah I'm also getting the error about I need another Apple ID but I had my account in good standing since 2003. And my address is in the USA.

 

[GeneralChang]

Anyone else getting a dialog saying you need to use a different account to download it?

Same here, though on further inspection it seems like the entire iTunes store is broken, at least as far as my apple ID is concerned. But only on my phone, not computer. Weird.

 

[Nermal]

What about the rest of the freaking world? Are Apple too tight-fisted to fork out licensing fees for every locale?

I presume that the "12 Days of Christmas" app will get new content this year (starting 26/12). That app has traditionally not been available in the US.

 

[Icaras]

I'm on my iPhone 5C and can't find this app in the app store or iTunes ... what gives. Is it called Holiday Playlist... because I get zero results.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8

 

[IvanX]

I presume that the "12 Days of Christmas" app will get new content this year (starting 26/12). That app has traditionally not been available in the US.

We'll see, but considering that Apple's Trailers app is not available in UK, I can only live and hope.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

What a paradox: Apple is afraid to call the free album "Christmas," yet every single song either directly or indirectly relates to that holiday or Jesus. As a Jew I could not care less that Apple offers this free album & hope those that do celebrate enjoy it. But it's not my holiday or one of other non-Christian religions. The "Holiday" name is Christmas, Apple. You can't make the album diverse by just giving it a generic name. Everyone understands the contents.

 

[Delta-NC]

Deleted.

 

[DragonJade]

You can't use the iPhone version of the App Store on the iPad anymore.

No problem for me: iPad 2, OSX 6.1.3

I just downloaded the cooking app (Canada) and the nutrition app (Japan).

 

[Jessica Lares]

No problem for me: iPad 2, OSX 6.1.3

I just downloaded the cooking app (Canada) and the nutrition app (Japan).

iPad Mini, iOS 7 here.

 

[chrfr]

iPad Mini, iOS 7 here.

There's a separate Apple Store app for iPad. For some reason, there's no universal version.

 

[Jessica Lares]

There's a separate Apple Store app for iPad. For some reason, there's no universal version.

I know... I have both installed.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Woa woa woa stop the presses, someone is offended.

Holiday is accurate. You're still celebrating Saturnalia and Kronia, among others, and calling it Christmas. That's three holidays to celebrate your main god and lesser gods in their various forms, and gather around a big pagan tree.

So stand up and defend... being a useful tool of an old dead empire whose power shifted from its unstable government to its official religion. Great.

 

[I7guy]

Hanukkah ends tomorrow, so I find it absurd to try calling December 6-25 the "Holiday Season" when clearly you're referring to "Christmas".

Kwanza is an artificial holiday that celebrates nothing. It started as a holiday for the non-religious to celebrate in Winter because everyone else was celebrating. "Politically correct" people will try telling you to respect it, because they think it's something sacred like Christmas or Hanukkah. It's not. You offend nobody by pretending it doesn't exist.

Bravo is all I can say.

 

[CptnJustc]

Kwanza is an artificial holiday that celebrates nothing. It started as a holiday for the non-religious to celebrate in Winter because everyone else was celebrating. "Politically correct" people will try telling you to respect it, because they think it's something sacred like Christmas or Hanukkah. It's not. You offend nobody by pretending it doesn't exist.

While Kwanzaa is non-religious, that has nothing to do with why it was started, and the non-religious have plenty of other winter holidays to celebrate (e.g., you know, Christmas, but without all the Jesus-y stuff from most of these particular songs).

 

[MacGizmo]

Many people do not associate this time of year with Christ, and quite rightly so, given that it has absolutely nothing to do with Christ (in a factual sense).

Um. Christ was born on Christmas day. That's WHY it's CHRISTmas day. That is of course, if you believe in Christ anyway.

 

[davidjearly]

Um. Christ was born on Christmas day. That's WHY it's CHRISTmas day. That is of course, if you believe in Christ anyway.

If you're referring to Christmas Day as 25th December, then no. No, he wasn't.

 

[everything-i]

That's a dirty word nowadays it seems. Companies are falling over themselves to banish such words, lest someone might be offended.

If I moved to a predominantly Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist country, or even Israel for that matter, I would not expect people to change their religious vocabulary for me. But that's what we do here, in the name of making everyone feel at home.

Call that 'spineless' or 'progressive'; I'm inclined to go with the former.

This is so true, I don't mind anyone celebrating their own festivals in fact I enjoy sharing the festivities when Hindu and Muslim workmates celebrate their significant religious days but my day must be somehow kept quiet about and be referred to as 'the holiday season' which drives me mad. I really miss what Christmas used to be in my country

 

[Delta-NC]

Deleted.

 

[weckart]

Your profile says UK, so I suggest you stop reading the daily mail and go outside from time to time. Nobody is censoring your religious festival here.

They tried their level best in Birmingham.

RIP, Winterval.

 

[dumastudetto]

Why not call it Christmas play list as it is all Christmas songs. What is this pathological reluctance to use the word Christmas these days.

Fox News frontman Bill O'Reilly was right years ago when he called this a crusade against Christmas. It really is a culture war but people laughed and mocked him and now look where we are. Even Apple is afraid to name this a Christmas playlist and use the lame holiday language. Disgusting.

 

[djtech42]

Fox News frontman Bill O'Reilly was right years ago when he called this a crusade against Christmas. It really is a culture war but people laughed and mocked him and now look where we are. Even Apple is afraid to name this a Christmas playlist and use the lame holiday language. Disgusting.

People mock him because he's insane

 

[alent1234]

Fox News frontman Bill O'Reilly was right years ago when he called this a crusade against Christmas. It really is a culture war but people laughed and mocked him and now look where we are. Even Apple is afraid to name this a Christmas playlist and use the lame holiday language. Disgusting.

Jesus wasn't even born in december

otherwise this time of year has always been a holiday of parties and town feasts. it started being called Christmas hundreds of years after the birth of Christ. and the european version of Christianity was to take their pagan beliefs and rename them with Christian names and meanings