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>Apple said "Hey everyone owns this U2 album now". And if your phone had automatic downloads turned on it downloaded the album. It wasn't that simple. The usua

>Apple said "Hey everyone owns this U2 album now". And if your phone had automatic downloads turned on it downloaded the album. It wasn't that simple. The usual functionality of slide-to-delete didn't work at all, because of iCloud, or something. A week after they foisted it on everybody, they decided to implement a dedicated page to allow frustrated users to delete it, because of how different it was from a mere purchase authorization from the iTunes Store. [0] "The slope", in this case, as far as I understand the root-level ancestor comment, refers to the idea that Apple is increasingly paternalistic about its powers over the device you ostensibly own: >>>>"We're going to scan your photos, on your encrypted device, to look for badness. Right now, we're going to claim that's only for the really icky people that nobody is going to defend, but, hey, once the tech is in place, who's to say we can't scan for dank memes and stuff?"[1] I think bringing up the U2 album is entirely within scope re paternalistic overreach. I assume your arbitrary goalpost movement to "invasion of privacy or some new technical advance" is considered by you to be indicative of your personal and argumentative seriousness? [0] https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-forced-a-u2-album-on-us-all https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-for... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078435

etchalon 5y ago
It was actually that simple. Apple gave everyone the album. It just assigned that album to everyone's library. It could be deleted from the device, but it stayed attached to your account. So it showed up in your library when you searched even if you didn't have it downloaded, because that's how Apple's library worked. I'm not sure how that's "paternalistic" in any sense of the word. I didn't move the goalpost. This article, and commentary, is specifically about how Apple is adding technology that can be used to invade our privacy or be abused by state actors. A bad marketing tactic from seven years ago that amounted to a free gift no one wanted is an absolutely ridiculous example.

etchalon 5y ago

It was actually that simple. Apple gave everyone the album. It just assigned that album to everyone's library. It could be deleted from the device, but it stayed attached to your account. So it showed up in your library when you searched even if you didn't have it downloaded, because that's how Apple's library worked. I'm not sure how that's "paternalistic" in any sense of the word. I didn't move the goalpost. This article, and commentary, is specifically about how Apple is adding technology that can be used to invade our privacy or be abused by state actors. A bad marketing tactic from seven years ago that amounted to a free gift no one wanted is an absolutely ridiculous example.