16.09.2014, 18:23 clock | dpa / LS / mth
Apple has responded to the harsh criticism of its users The gift of U2 album can now be quite easily deleted. (Source: AP)
It seemed a brilliant PR idea to be, but many users in Rage brought: After days of criticism allows its users Apple now delete the gift of new album by the band U2 from their media libraries. The group switched on Monday released a website through which this can be done with a push of a button.
Apple had at the launch of the new-generation iPhone on Tuesday of last week, 500 million customers given the new U2 album “Songs of Innocence” and placed it directly in their libraries. A nice gesture, but made for a veritable shitstorm on the electronics giant.
users feel patronized
stumbling block is the automatic download, through the many users of music software feel patronized. “I stood naked and vulnerable in the shower and heard songs on the shuffle function, and suddenly, the new U2 album played,” writes the well-known British blogger Dan Howell on Twitter. “I feel raped by Apple.”
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How do you find it that Apple has presented the new U2 album?
“Big Brother wants me to hear U2″
Another post on Twitter reads: “Big Brother wants me to listen to U2.” And user “element” writes: “I’m so pissed Apple, how can you dare for me to download music without telling me about it.?”
The first U2 album in five years
“Songs of Innocence” is the first album of U2 since 2009 over the release date had been long speculated. The advance single “Invisible” came in February on the market. Also it was advertised with great fanfare: in a commercial during the Super Bowl. But with the fans they arrived not very good. In Germany the number of occupied only number 48 on the charts.
As the “Wall Street Journal” reported that Apple does not pay the Music Group Universal Music for “Songs of Innocence” normal album price, but a negotiated discount amount. The record company was hoping that, to boost sales of older albums of the band, it said, citing informed people. U2 singer Bono had a good relationship with the 2011 late Apple founder Steve Jobs.
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