Apple (AAPL) must've thought that giving everyone a free U2 album was the cherry on top of this week's launch of the iPhone 6, Apple Watch and other. With complaints along the lines of 'I'd rather have food poisoning on Christmas' and 'Why and how did a random U2 album download onto my phone?'

Tim Cook and U2 announced that the band’s new album “Songs of Innocence” would be automatically last week following the announcement of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but many iTunes users (even for free). While iTunes supports a way to “hide” previous purchases, the complaints and confusion apparently grew loud enough to warrant a for permanently removing the free U2 album from iTunes purchase history. Apple says once you remove the free album from your iTunes purchase history and library, you will need to “get it again” if you decide you want it. The U2 album is available for free until October 13th next month when the album will then be available for sale at various retailers. View below for information on how to remove the free U2 album. • Click Remove Album to confirm you’d like to remove the album from your account. • Sign in with the Apple ID and password you use to buy from the iTunes Store.

• You’ll see a confirmation message that the album has been removed from your account. If you downloaded the songs to iTunes on your Mac or PC or to the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you’ll need to manually. The public reaction to having U2’s album available automatically for free directly in customers’ iTunes libraries seemed to surprise Apple as the company pushed the complimentary album with an email campaign and even a new ad seen below. Download Mp3 Padi Mahadewi Acoustic more.

While the U2 album is free for customers through mid-October, it came at quite a high cost for Apple (not just counting the public reaction). The New York Times for the rights the release the album for iTunes customers, and it slated for the future. Update: A little damage control after the SOI removal tool debut? Apple SVP Eddy Cue tells that 33 million people have “experienced” Songs of Innocence using iTunes, iTunes Radio, or Beats Music. “Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record breaking 33 million people have already experienced the album,” Eddy Cue, Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services, said in a statement to Mashable.

When asked what “experienced the album” means, an Apple spokesperson clarified that it means “listened to it” — either on iTunes, iTunes Radio or Beats Music. Some Dude in NC - 3 years ago I wouldn’t say it was anyone’s fail. Obviously everyone doesn’t like U2 so there were bound to be people that didn’t want and wouldn’t listen to it. Personally, I think it was a great gesture on Apple’s part to partner with a band that a lot of people do like and provide something for free. Perhaps next time they’ll put it in the “Free on iTunes” section of iTunes so people can make up their own minds. People who are whining: Just delete the thing and go on with your lives.

Everything is going to be ok. 2 years ago Interesting update as of June, 2015 Adding to not being allowed to delete an album that was put there without customer permission on ITunes Account. When trying to delete a pop up window would appear saying that the process could not be completed until the account owner signed a new agreement with Apple, the new agreement was they would not be liable for any indecent material that showed up on ITunes Accounts that was put there without permission.(hoping this is not their new agenda).

Gulf Coast Gal •. What a sad day! Doesn’t matter what you think of the band or the album. It was free for you to listen to or not. It’s nice and refreshing when big companies give things out for free. This wasn’t a toy in a cereal box.

This was somebodies work and passion. A money maker and something substantial. Be happy you got something just for the sake of being apart of the apple community. Stop the hate and the complaining just to complain, my God.

Open your ears and minds if it not for you then it’s not for you but don’t kill it for everyone else and kill the ideas of free things. You could be killing something that’s free in the future that u personally want but now Apple will say, forget it! There’s tons of artists that are not my cup of tea.

I respect them and they are not bad or dead or forgotten. They are talented musicians that just aren’t my interest. You better believe I would take an album that was offered for free as well as give it a listen to broaden my musical knowledge. Great job Apple and U2. Thank you for your generosity and I’m sorry on behalf of all the people that obviously can have no thanks towards a gift. The alum was great as well.

To be honest liked U2 when they started and a bit mid career then I kinda forgot about them. This new album shows some great energy and has a great sound. Thanks again and c’mon people open your hearts and ears as well as you minds. U2 needed this to work.

In this day and age it’s an act of desparation. It’s not a fault of Apple, but they should have given the opportunity for people to download it, rather than making the automatic assumption that every one of the 500 miliion wanted a copy of the album. I was one that didn’t.

I lost faith in U2 at The Joshua Tree. “A mole, Digging in a hole, Digging up my soul now, Going down, excavation” is not good Bono, especially after “Broken bottles under children’s feet, Bodies strewn across the dead end street, But I won’t heed the battle call, It puts my back up, Puts my back up against the wall” AND ESPECIALLY as they are all “don’t cheat the artist of their money”, when the single of this specific album, is all about getting into The Ramones gig for free. First, this was APPLE, not U2; Apple gave U2 100 million bucks for what could be 500 million copies. I’ll let you do the math as to how much they could make a copy, should enough downloads happen. At this point U2 is a band that does not need to prove anything.

In fact, the band, and several generations of their descendants, are set financially even if they never recorded another song. And yeah, so they did something less than legal as teenagers. In the 1970’s. That means they were young and stupid, just as we all were at one time. That doesn’t invalidate the concept of “not stealing”. I’m a little surprised that they didn’t do it more like the 12 days of christmas gifts, where you can choose to download it or not. Although I don’t mind the album and I’m happy it was free.

That said, there were some freebies in the past that needed to get removed from my purchase history, luckily I already know how to do that. One was a bundle of country songs, and the other was a five-pack of religious christmas tracks that they gave away one year. I didn’t complain to apple that I got them for free; I just hid them and now they’re gone. I didn’t even dl it from the Cloud, but I don’t get a choice in NOT listening to it, b/c it plays anyway on my iPhone. In fact, I had no music in there and then randomly one day found all of these U2 songs in there, and genuinely thought my phone was hacked somehow, and these songs were infected. Then, I read the article on AP, and it all became clear for me. I appreciate the gesture, but it treats the consumer like an incapable sheep that can’t decide for themselves to dl the album for free in the iTunes store, which I would have chose NOT to do, even though the songs aren’t so bad.

Recolored 1 1 0 Keygen Crack. When they were all in a room deciding this, they must have brought up a picture of me–the consumer who would never listen to U2 willingly, but hey, when they listen, they’ll agree it’s not that bad. But even if it is free, I don’t want it!

Not that bad is not good enough to be in my music collection. It was made this way, including the jumping of hoops to remove the album, as a reason to spout crazy figures of “consumers experiencing the album,” but how many that experienced this album had their day made better for it?

The obnoxious unbalance of the reporting is another negative facet of this experiment. To write off peps who are disgruntled by this as a Samsung lover, somebody whining of a First-World problem: don’t invalidate my point of view. The point is the patronizing of the consumer. I do acknowledge the thought that went into it, motivated by the complete upheaval in the music industry from the rampant piracy that has affected sales, from the zealous wield over musical artists held by the money-making record labels and their unwillingness to innovate or deal effectively with this new reality, but Apple+U2 method is a no-go for me. I mean, come on Apple. You already have this reputation of thinking of your consumers simultaneously as intelligent and unintelligent–don’t insult my intelligence. Even if the album for free is by an artist that I actually appreciate, you should very nicely include an easy methodology for removing it.

I swear, I could not get this shitty music and its accompanying free Gay AF cover art off my phone. Finally after an hour of internet research and several youtube videos it’s removed. And it’s not like I have anything against gays- but do I have to have a homoerotic softcore porn photo of some dude about to gobble some other dude as what I see when I turn on my phone? Plus this album is about the shittiest thing I have ever heard. Well, it’s a tie with a Shonen Knife album I heard once. But nobody forced me to have that one on my phone.