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Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices
Zanadou writes "Apple may have succeeded at breaking two records at once with the free release of U2's latest album, titled Songs of Innocence, via iTunes. But now, it looks like it's also on track to become one of the worst music publicity stunts of all time. Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones. But even if iTunes users hadn't chosen automatic downloads, Songs of Innocence will still be displayed as an "iTunes in the Cloud" purchase. That means it will still be shown as part of your music library, even if you delete all the tracks. The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your "iTunes in the Cloud" purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list. Other reactions include rapper Tyler, The Creator saying that having the new U2 album automatically downloaded on his iPhone was like waking up with an STD. Update: 09/16 15:06 GMT by T : Note: Apple has released a fix.
When I looked it was because of too much traffic from this forced update. Also, a bunch of our Mac Minis locked-up when they ran out of harddrive room. I spent most of the weekend cleaning-up after this fiasco. I'd like to know how much U2 paid Apple to screw over their users like this. I have a lot of angry coworkers.
I take it all the world's real problems got solved over the past few days? I must've missed it. I would've expected CNN to report on it...
Seriously, get a grip.
#DeleteChrome
You have roaming charges and let iTunes download everything automatically? And somehow it is Apple's fault?
Write boring code, not shiny code!
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