Apple is getting more criticism for this than it did for iOS 7 automatically downloading itself which consisted of consuming multiple GB on older Apple devices who's owners did not want to update due to the fact that iOS 7 slowed their devices down, and in that instance you couldn't delete the download.
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U2's Bono Apologizes for Automatic 'Songs of Innocence' Album Download
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Why is everyone saying that, "world ending"???? No one cried sky is falling but those who keep saying it's such a big deal. If you don't think it is a big deal why do you keep saying it's the "world ending" event?
Love you all!
Why is everyone saying that, "world ending"???? No one cried sky is falling but those who keep saying it's such a big deal. If you don't think it is a big deal why do you keep saying it's the "world ending" event?
Love you all!
Correct. Just like ALL the music one dislikes that is there for them on a subscription service. Nobody had to address it, acknowledge it or download it. But their lack of understanding made them look pretty silly. Boo hoo.
I want everyone to sing.
I encourage everyone to sing all of the time. I don't care how bad you think it might be, singing is good for human beings as it is very good.
I LOVE You all!
I encourage everyone to sing all of the time. I don't care how bad you think it might be, singing is good for human beings as it is very good.
I LOVE You all!
Oh god. Apple gives us a gift. We're all going to die. OH NO. It was a nice gift and if you don't want it, and you had auto download on, delete it. End of story, who cares and you can move on.
If only people put this sort of mental energy into things more important in the world.
In many cases (if you don't turn on the automatic download option which is by default is OFF), you shouldn't be able to see it at all in your iDevice. My friend doesn't even aware there is a free album. As for my case, I had to go to iTunes Store to download it for free.
Just stop with the overrated whines already
Even though its nice to have something free now and than. I see this as a new definition of music bloatware in iTunes, given its unwanted by user. Anyways I deleted and hide mine as i do not like U2.
Honestly I hadn't connected the U2 album with NSA. I don't take lightly how someone feels about he NSA issue.
What I'm going t say next will sound sarcastic but I don't mean it that way: In the job I have now I'm a lot more worried about the fact that I have a coworker who can see all of our medical records, email, every mouse click we make, etc. It's a fact as she's got access to all this data because the insurance data comes through our business and she's acting as network administrator and is related to the owner. I like it better when someone I don't know can see my data rather than a coworker who gossips as she does. Also a first world problem I guess...
Seriously dude? your 11th post since 2012 is screaming about this... without even providing a single intelligent argument? just "move to android"... that's it?
Sad. Funny, but sad.
Cheers!
You say "forced free U2 album," I say "a well-intentioned gift". If I were given the gift of a free third-party app that I wasn't interested in, I wouldn't be worried. I don't have auto-download turned on. Why? Because I don't like things I don't want being forced upon me. I'm willing to give up a little bit of convenience for that level of control.
Example: I still have an old version of Google Drive installed on my iPhone. When Google released Docs and Sheets as stand-alone apps, they removed the functionality to edit those types of files from within the Google Drive app. The funny thing is, I don't really use any of it with any regularity. It just rubbed me the wrong way, so I didn't update. TAKE THAT, GOOGLE! Yeah, I'm sure they're worried.
Apple, despite having great taste in design and aesthetics and stuff, has always had ****** taste in music
Cheers! - Seriously dude? You're crying about 'abuse of your account' - Where's your intelligence? If this is the worst thing to happen to you, then you need some new priorities, seriously dude. On behalf of Apple, I'm sorry they abused you, and your account, and touched it inappropriately. If you read my other posts, they had intelligent argument. Your post, didn't. It just talked about your account being 'abused'.
More so screaming about it because you have no valid argument. A company gives you a gift, and you accuse them of abusing you/your account/whatever. Do you not see how ridiculous your post is? Perhaps you're the sad one when you have nothing better to complain about. But hey, that's just my unintelligent opinion.
Your premise is great, but that's not what they did.
They didn't give it to anyone who wanted it, they forced you to add it to your library (it was more of a break into your library and put it on the shelf).
Many people don't want music that isn't their's mixed in with their music. That's why the buy music, to listen to what they want when they want to.
They could have sent everyone promo codes or just made it free for the week. Word would have gotten around...
Gary
Apple really took advantage of their customers in a bad way and it was a very poor judgement call on Apple's part. They really get what they deserve here and I do not feel sorry for them at all with all of the complaints.
If I wanted music and other things shoved down my throat, why not just revert to pre-2007-iPhone days when the carriers did the same thing.
Shame on Apple.
If I wanted music and other things shoved down my throat, why not just revert to pre-2007-iPhone days when the carriers did the same thing.
Shame on Apple.
Maybe U2 should hire the British Petroleum CEO to apologize for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw
Do people really not realize that the album auto-downloaded because their setting for auto-downloading was enabled? That they could have changed this? Wow.