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U2 Said to Play 'Significant Part' in Tomorrow's Apple Event
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I never said it was about popularity. I'm a fan and to me they are very relevant. I'm sure there are bands that you're fans of that are not relevant to me, but mean so much to you.
There isn't a guide book that explains how a band is relevant or not. They're four guys who make music and have a good ass time doing it. What more can you ask for?
really, it makes you THAT unhappy that you need to scream and b*tch online about them. whats more funny is that some macrumour nerds that are likely still in HS think THEIR opinion of one of the most successful rock bands of all time matters. Right. Go and listen to some fake a$$ synthesizer 'music' (if you can even call todays sound, music) like n. minaj or d guetta BS.
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U2 is an iconic band, I am really surprised so may here have no appreciation for them.
Go listen to Boy or War, or The Joshua Tree...
the idiots on this forum wouldn't know good music if it smacked them. They are a generation of kids that listened to absolute garbage that was passed along as music. No surprises there.
Seems like bono wants to cash in some more.
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You do realize music is subjective?
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You do realize music is subjective?
I think the main issue is this:
We ALL have fave bands. We'd prolly all love if our iProducts came tailored to us w/ said band's music & tour info! However, we are all (I hope) intelligent enough to realize that, while that might be AWESOME for us, it may be jarring, obnoxious, or even insulting to others.
I listen to South African Rap/Rave group, Die Antwoord. Seen them twice- dig the music & message. I would NEVER wish their music or message foisted upon the entire iPhone crowd. I get that I'm a unique eclectic individual. I adore my individualality... I can put ONLY the content which is relevant and appropriate to me on my iDevices. The question is NOT "is U2 relevant to you.... or me?" It's "is U2 relevant to the MAJORITY of Apple users?" If not- they have zero business having ANYTHING of theirs integrated into our phones.
Comparison: TouchID may have some users that don't use it... but it has benefits now for most users & future benefits for most people... and has absolutely no trouble for users that don't want it. There isn't something extra they have to look at that they don't want to... there's nothing they have to go delete... therefore it is a "good" inclusion. Whereas, any U2 content would NOT benefit most users now, would NOT have the ability to benefit those users in the future, & WOULD have to be manually deleted... thus, it would be a "bad" inclusion. Make sense??
Paris Hilton! I hope it comes pre-loaded with one of Paris Hilton's awesomesauce albums!!!!!1
Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_concert_tours (U2 is #1 and #6 on the all time highest-grossing concert tours)
Their last tour was 2009 - 2011: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266418/top-25-tours-of-2009 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/949535/top-25-tours-of-2010 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/42159/top-25-tours-of-2011 (#1, then #2 the next year and back to #1 in 2011, but that was 3 whole years ago, I guess they are "obscure" now
If they aren't your cup of tea, that is just fine, but you can't ignore all the other people in the world who are still enjoying them enough to go see them in concert in such large numbers.
I am very sorry you wasted all that reply. I said none of the things you are implying. And you say "Nevermind..." like you had been trying to convince me of something for a while, like that was not my first reply to a small portion of your post.
My reply was simply to the phrase "U2 is practically obscure" which I thought was ridiculous. Notice I only quoted that simple phrase, which means my reply is only addressing that. My reply was only about U2 as a band, nothing to do with their connection to Apple or their involvement with today's Keynote.
If you saw my earlier post (not my reply to what you want to club me with) I said while I like U2's music, I could care less about them being involved with Apple today. The only thing I would enjoy is a U2 Red iPhone, but that is just more about a red phone and less about U2. I agree, Apple does not need them and I really don't care. I did respond to "U2 is practically obscure" because that is just a stupid thing to say. If you like U2 or not, they are not obscure.
If someone said "'Seinfeld' was never popular" or "'Seinfeld' was cancelled" I would reply with "Seinfeld was the highest grossing TV show" (or whatever fact was actually true about "Seinfeld")
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Apple has had other bands/artist play at the end of a Keynote. You could say the same about all of them. Why Foo Fighters?
*This is assuming their "Significant Part" in today's event is a performance. And if it is more than that I guess it would still be fair to ask "Why U2?" But no matter what band, someone would ask "Why ___?"
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Apple is completing a tax inversion and will merge with Bono's company to move overseas!
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You're missing out! Of course, I'm a child of the 1980s.
Bono's company already moved overseas to avoid Irish tax!
I've come to the conclusion that the reason the album is free is that we came stream it only. There is still no way to download this to my iPad because it still does not show up in my purchases though the album shows as purchased in iTunes.
12 hours later and I still can't download on my iPad. I think it's been more than enough time.
So what ever happened to that big mystery construction outside the building? I guess it actually have nothing whatsoever to do with Apple after all! Hahaha.
I agree the U2 thing was needless and cheesy. The scripted reveal after the performance was kinda painful. And that song really didn't work well at all live. Studio version probably sounds better... but it's not a great song.
I agree the U2 thing was needless and cheesy. The scripted reveal after the performance was kinda painful. And that song really didn't work well at all live. Studio version probably sounds better... but it's not a great song.
