Classic or Dud: U2

they missed a trick IMO by not forcing this onto our devices & computers in Apple Lossless so that ppl who were making out their storage could be really fucked

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How much to not get another U2 album?

applause xxp

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Let's be honest if it wasn't U2 and it wasn't shit even by their shitty standards, it wouldn't have pissed people off half as much.

Apple are proud to team up with Guns n' Roses

Dunno. If Vampire Weekend had done this, 95% of the world would have gone 'huh?', but those final five percent would have been FURIOUS.

I think it would have gone down badly (if not as widely publicized) for any band because you couldn't initially get rid of the files. I think it would have been fine for U2 had they just given users the option of downloading the thing, instead of attaching it to their libraries, borg-style. In a way, they're trailblazers in this, because they taught every other band what NOT to do.

loving everybody acting like extended family at christmas - "good lord, your nice cloud provider buys you a u2 album and all you can do is complain. you should be nicer to that conglomerate, or maybe next time they won't buy you anything."

why u hurt apple's feelings

They should've force fed the world a new Dr. Dre album. They already bought Dre anyway iirc.

I thought you could get rid of the files, but you just couldn't get rid of the 'purchased' label?

They should've force fed the world a new Dr. Dre album. They already bought Dre anyway iirc.

― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre

nah forget about Dre

Show some respect Alfred, he is - after all - still D.R.E.

re: “it isn’t a big deal—”

Apple isn’t Google or Facebook. 83-92% of Google’s revenue is advertising. Likewise, 88-94% of Facebook’s revenue is advertising. Less than 4% of Apple’s revenue is advertising. You can’t compare Apple with Google and Facebook when discussing privacy issues. They have completely different incentives.

I guess it is now back to Metallica's turn to do something so publicly obnoxious that people find even more reasons to hate the band, since Kiss, Kanye and U2 have had their say for this quarter.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-to-issue-27-live-albums-by-end-of-2014-20140917

In other Metallica news, the band recently set a Guinness World Record for touring, earning the distinction of being the first group to play all seven continents. "Seven continents in one year with Antarctica being the gig of a lifetime...." Frontman James Hetfield said in a statement earlier this month. "Yes, 120 scientists and competition winners. Not to mention the 300 very curious penguins!"

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iRant—

I don’t think it’s a privacy issue. But it was stupid.

My impression is that middle-managers have wrecked Internet Software and Services—the unit behind iTunes and the iTunes Music Store.
While the other teams, Software and Hardware Engineering, exist without management and retain strong engineers, Internet Software and Services hasn’t. Because they’ve been unable to foster a productive engineering culture, product management was introduced. It’s a mess.

Internet Services e.g. the App Store, iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, and Maps, should encourage culture, but they’ve become a wasteland of miss-matched priorities and technology that’s been adopted and abandoned. Apple Pay, iAds, and Messages share resources and priorities—that’s fucked up. And it’s unnecessary.

If Apple spun-out iTunes and the iTunes Music Store from Internet Software and Services, staffed it with engineers who are passionate about the product and music, and treated the unit as an equal to the other three groups, it never would’ve happened. No one would’ve said “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we downloaded a new U2 album onto everyone’s Mac, iPhone, and iPad?” It was dumb decision made by people disinterested in their product and especially disinterested in music.

Blah, blah, blah …

LOL. Oops.

nah, otm

xxxposts but framing it as a privacy issue and pointing out that one well-dressed Facebook already knows where you're hiding just seems deliberately obtuse.

It's not about "privacy," it's about the illusion of control of my digital living room. Like it's fine if Spotify wants to recommend the shit out of Iggy Azalea but if you drop her into my favorites and make her unremoveable you've gone too far without compromising my privacy in any way.

It's a clumsy overreach on apple's part at a time when the optics on reminding us that the landlord can enter our cloud spaces and rearrange the furniture are particularly poor.

It's lol that it's U2 and whatever but that's really beside the point.

Apple should really do commercials based on this, just run with it comedically, like you get home from a long day at work and iggy azalea or U2 or biebs or vampire weekend is just chilling in your living room, eating a bag of chips or whatever.

I downloaded the album to my device today. I didn't realize that I was only streaming it before. So apple invaded my digital space with a few 10s of kBs of metadata.

hey look, free dog shit i threw into your front window!

Would have made so much more sense to put it on the iTunes store for $0.00.

And yeah, I'm going 100% McLuhan because the medium is definitely dictating this message. If it's just going to be a free iTunes download, why even bother making an effort. Like everyone else, it feels like they procrastinated until the night before and then pulled an all-nighter. World peace or else indeed - sucker.

Were the files put on your hard drive?

people must be really pissed when they receive email attachments

Nope. I was genuinely curious to hear the new U2 album. Too bad that it feels like a b-side comp.

'Raised by Wolves' is a jam

I hate how 'This is Where You Can Reach Me Now' sounds like every Danger Mouse produced track ever, though.

Oh, great. Now they also want to make their own Pono.

http://time.com/3393297/u2-apple-new-digital-format/

I love how the final three paragraphs are nothing but a dull financial report with a bit of gloss, but my favorite moment is this pathetic paranthetical:

(It bears repetition: many, many people really, really like U2.)

Oh it turns out it's an audiovisual format. BOUND TO SUCCEED.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/u2-and-apple-working-on-new-digital-format-that-will-tempt-people-into-buying-music-again/

I downloaded the album to my device today. I didn't realize that I was only streaming it before. So apple invaded my digital space with a few 10s of kBs of metadata.

It depended on the user’s iTunes Match configuration. It automatically downloaded on my Macs.

― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton)

LOL

speaking of bad analogies:

“It’s like everyone’s vomiting whatever their first impression is,” said Clayton at one point.

"Ooh, Betty! Bleurgh!"

oh man just wait until people start vomiting their fully formed opinions
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I'm in a baja fresh right now that is only playing u2. Is this supposed to be part of the push?

The TroubbllLLARGGGHHH

just saw their new ad where they rock out to "the miracle of joey ramone" in vibrant colors while images of patti smith and joey and the clash etc appear in their hearts

Everyone who's being obnoxiously zen about any aspect of this campaign needs to go bake themselves a cookie cuz no one's going to give them one

"i for one took in stride when u2 appeared in my itunes" tell apple they'll appreciate it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxxHCYDIMAEWiLd.jpg

u gonna get the new U2

was about to vent about how these guys are managing to make the '90s stones look humble and unostentatious but to be fair the stones didn't have the ability to do much more than traipse around the TV and play stadiums, who knows what kind of campaign Bridges to Babylon would have had in our brave new world