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Apple Can Delete Purchased Movies From Your Library Without Telling You (theoutline.com)
Casey Johnston, writing for The Outline: When you buy a movie on iTunes, it's yours forever, until such a time as when Apple maybe loses the rights to distribute it, and then it will disappear from your library without a trace. This is what happened to Anders G. da Silva, who goes by @drandersgs on Twitter, and who tweeted about losing three movies bought on the iTunes Store.
When da Silva wrote to Apple to complain about the missing movies, Apple wrote back to him that "the content provider has removed these movies from the Canadian Store. Hence, these movies are not available in the Canada iTunes Store at this time." For his trouble in notifying Apple that it had disappeared three of his ostensible belongings for incredibly dubious legal reasons, Apple offered da Silva not even a refund, but two credits for renting a movie on the iTunes Store "priced up to $5.99 USD." After he argued that he was not in the market for rentals and would just like the movies he purchased, please, Apple tried to appease him with two more rental credits.
When da Silva wrote to Apple to complain about the missing movies, Apple wrote back to him that "the content provider has removed these movies from the Canadian Store. Hence, these movies are not available in the Canada iTunes Store at this time." For his trouble in notifying Apple that it had disappeared three of his ostensible belongings for incredibly dubious legal reasons, Apple offered da Silva not even a refund, but two credits for renting a movie on the iTunes Store "priced up to $5.99 USD." After he argued that he was not in the market for rentals and would just like the movies he purchased, please, Apple tried to appease him with two more rental credits.
I was buying Mac's for my daily driver laptops because of the high quality hardware. Well, I had been since 2003. Sadly, while I still have a PowerBook (PPC based) that works fine and one 2011 that sorts works okay my latest laptops have all died.
The last MacBook Pro I had was especially troubling. See, I'm a hardware engineer so I figured I could fix it. Nope. What died? A proprietary power management IC that also does some copy protection crap for Apple. I can't buy it or even get a data sheet on it.
My answer was to buy a ThinkPad and put Linux on it. It's faster and works better. Maybe I'll even try to run Altium in Wine rather than in a VM -- which may be nicer than it was on my MBP.
So yeah, the only endearing quality (well built HW) for crApple products is now gone I see no reason to buy anything from them. They want to be a phone company but their phone offering (iOS) is abysmal.
Jeebus!
OFFTOPIC Much???