Hmmm because people complained about Apple invading their privacy
something stupid like that. I know I know. Totally unnecessary in my
view. Don't want it? Don't download it and wait for it to be removed
automatically!
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 16/09/2014 14:36, Charles Rivard wrote:
Why would Apple release a removal tool if the offer's going to be
removed on or around the ninth of October, anyway?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:51 AM
Subject: RE: Apple Releases U2 Removal Tool, Today
And I bet now that people can remove it some will complain after October 13
that maybe the decided they want it after all and now have to pay for it.
What a bunch of baloney.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of M. Taylor
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:39 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Apple Releases U2 Removal Tool, Today
Hello Listers,
The link to actually remove the album is located at the bottom of this
post.
Mark
Apple has released a tool to remove U2's new album from its customers'
iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free.
Some users had complained about the fact that Songs of Innocence had
automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.
It had not been immediately obvious to many of the account holders how to
delete the tracks.
The US tech firm is now providing a one-click removal button.
"Some customers asked for the ability to delete 'Songs of Innocence' from
their library, so we set up itunes.com/soi-remove to let them easily do so.
Any customer that needs additional help should contact AppleCare,"
spokesman
Adam Howorth told the BBC.
Users who want to remove the new U2 album can now click a button to do so
Users who remove the album and do not download it again before 13 October
will be charged for the 11 tracks if they subsequently try to add them
again.
"It's embarrassing for Apple that it's had a bit of a backlash," commented
Ian Maude from the media consultancy Enders Analysis.
"It was giving something away to its customers - so that part was really
good - but what it should have probably done was make it optional. Not
everybody's a U2 fan as it's just discovered.
"Is there any long-term impact? No. It's moved very quickly to fix the
problem."
'Blood, sweat and tears'
Apple made the album available to about 500 million iTunes customers in 119
countries to coincide with its iPhone 6 and Watch launch event last week.
Some users had requested an easy way to delete the music from their media
libraries U2's singer Bono acknowledged at the time that not everyone would
appreciate the gift.
"People who haven't heard our music, or weren't remotely interested, might
play us for the first time because we're in their library," he wrote on the
band's site.
"And for the people out there who have no interest in checking us out, look
at it this way... the blood, sweat and tears of some Irish guys are in your
junk mail."
Bono added that Apple had "paid" for the giveaway, and reports have
suggested that prime placement of banner ads publicising the album on the
iTunes store and other publicity provided by the tech firm might be
worth as
much as $100m (£62m).
Sales of earlier U2 albums have re-entered iTunes' charts and the band has
also raised its profile ahead of an expected tour as well as a planned
follow-up album called Songs of Experience.
To Remove the Album from your iCloud account, go to:
http://itunes.com/soi-remove
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