During Tuesday’s Keynote, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned U2’s new album “Songs of Innocence” will be free to all iTunes customers. What they didn’t mention, Apple will forcibly add this album to your iTunes library via iTunes in the Cloud. In other means, it’s automatically purchased. Several users have began complaining on Twitter, claiming they weren’t warned beforehand.
Songs of Innocence is being automatically added to the iTunes purchase history. Which is now prompting iOS users to stream this album via iCloud. However you can hide the purchase. On your Mac or PC navigate to the purchases tab within the iTunes app. From there you’re able to click the “x” on the album. Which will then prompt you to make sure you want to hide the album.
Several younger customers, as noted by The Next Web, are taking their anger out on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AbbyRossi/status/509908160946388992
https://twitter.com/katie__doyle/status/509872638760853504
Obviously, not everyone likes the same music. Everyone has their own taste. This should be a lesson learned for Apple. What they should’ve done was list it as a free album, feature it in the iTunes Store, and sprinkle the Apple magical advertisements. Just don’t force it into their iTunes libraries.
It’s worth mentioning the album will only be available through Apple (and Beats Music) through October 13. After that, the album will magically disappear from your iTunes purchase history.
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