Apple a-holes:

Posted on May 9, 2016 by KG

‘Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.’
I came across this while searching for a reason Apple won’t allow me to upgrade my Mac to a more recent operating system. It’s been two nightmarish bloody days, and once I get all my stuff off this thing, it’ll become a Linux Mint box. Bastards.
From the link:
“..For about ten years, I’ve been warning people, “hang onto your media. One day, you won’t buy a movie. You’ll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don’t want you to see it, or they want to change something, they will have the power to do so. They can alter history, and they can make you keep paying for things that you formerly could have bought. Information will be a utility rather than a possession. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.”
UPDATE:
‘Silicon Valley Tech Giants Gaining Police Forfeiture Rights’

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14 Responses to Apple a-holes:

MacDoctor says:

May 9, 2016 at 22:26

Except this articles appears to be complete nonsense as explained by MacWorld
- KG says:
  
  May 10, 2016 at 01:30
  
  I very much doubt it’s “complete nonsense”, MacDoc. From your link, in comments:
  “But then, a couple of iTunes iterations back, late last year, it happened to me. Updated iTunes, restarted my MBP, reopened iTunes and was astonished and irate to see that years of custom playlists, tags, cover art, my ripped CD collection—95% of my stuff—had vanished. Anything hi-res that was in the cloud was only available to download as 256kbps garbage, complete with incorrect/outdated cover art, different-sounding mixes, the works. After dashing off a pretty terse email to Apple, I decided the iTunes critics are right and iTunes has become too dangerous to mess with. This is especially irksome given the (former) size of my library and the amount of tweaking I had put into it. In vulgar terms, this was a cluster**k of unbelievable proportions.
  
  None of the measures described in Apple’s online support restored my library. It was gone without a trace. It wasn’t hard drive corruption…”
- Francis W. Porretto says:
  
  May 10, 2016 at 01:34
  
  Let’s imagine for a moment that:
  1. James Pinkstone told the full and exact truth;
  2. Kirk McElhearn’s article at least describes the way the Apple crap is supposed to work.
  
  Composers are meticulous about their works. They don’t arbitrarily or randomly delete them. The presumption must be that the Apple crap deleted them. Pinkstone has no obvious reason for lying about it, nor about his interaction with the Apple rep who said “The Software is working as intended.”
  
  Given all that, the Apple crap — my favorite term for their overpriced products and services — had a fault in it that cost Pinkstone, at the minimum, some agitation and time. I feel he’s owed — and I don’t think the EULA can absolve Apple of the moral obligation, regardless of what the law might say.
  
  Then again, if you’re big enough, you can get away with anything.
  - KG says:
    
    May 10, 2016 at 01:52
Ronbo says:

May 9, 2016 at 22:38

Microsoft is playing winning games with Windows 10, which has by now uploaded on all their PCs, so if on Windows 8 your friend gave you movies and music, and you copied them – when the upgrade to Windows10 happened, guess what? They aren’t there anymore. It would appear the music and movie companies got their revenge for people not paying them for their product.
Darin says:

May 10, 2016 at 00:11

As my father who drove mainframes for 30+ years always says-“never,ever,under any circumstances keep anything important on a computer”

Have backups for backups and burn as much as you can to CD/DVD.If you want free offsite storage signup for a free web-mail account and store your files as drafts.I use g-mail for this reason and also I have access to things I need from remote locations,basically everywhere there is a connection of some sort.

As far as Apple,well they are no better or worse than Microsoft the details are always in the EULA and whoever really reads that?

Besides I never liked Steve Jobs anyway-

https://youtu.be/FmbwR9J6-Yw
Bo Chandler says:

May 10, 2016 at 02:59

The bottom line is that that vast VAST majority of people affected by this sort of thing are obviously not going to make a lot of noise about their personal music disappearing because likely a lot of pirated stuff went with it.

Funfact. I found my boy lining up music on youtube using his laptop and recording it on his ipod with the voice memo app. I figure it’s not much different from the old days of pressing play/record on my tape deck while the radio was playing. Some things never change

I too am about to try to shift to linux. Ever since I got a decent internet connection my laptop processing power has suspiciously slowed to snail speed and no amount of anti-spyware programs or temp-data clearing seems to resolve the issue. When windows downloaded 215 updates, tried to install them and got to #13 over a period of ten hours I decided that it was the straw that had officially broken the camel’s back.
- KG says:
  
  May 10, 2016 at 04:06
  
  “..When windows downloaded 215 updates, tried to install them and got to #13 over a period of ten hours I decided that it was the straw that had officially broken the camel’s back.”
  Insane, isn’t it? If you bought a car and something similar happened the bastards could be sued. Not MS or Apple, though. Funny, that….
  I’m just about to get a Linux Mint USB stick and an install cd as well. Total cost: $30.
  I downloaded the Mint .iso file but the installer won’t work on this Mac for some obscure reason. And the machine refuses to update to a later OS.
  - Bo Chandler says:
    
    May 10, 2016 at 22:40
    
    An obscure reason that’s completely unintended by the manufacturer, I’m sure.
    
    edit: As for the 215 updates, it makes me a little suspicious when the updates take literally 50 times longer than the install itself.
    - KG says:
      
      May 11, 2016 at 00:58
      
      Yep.
      - Darin says:
        
        May 11, 2016 at 05:48
        
        That’s always the first thing I do on a windoze system,disable the live update feature.I never allow installing updates on a new system,unless they offer a full service patch like they did with XP sp2.
        They have a history of sending out updates that conflict with the previous update and they expect everybody to have hours to read all the fine print as to what exactly the update does.
        Of course all that is headed for the history books.The day is coming rapidly when you will no longer own an OS and no longer will have control over it or what it does.
Brown says:

May 10, 2016 at 06:40

I’m no IT geek (its just a tool that I use at the level that suits me) but my gut feeling has always been that if you don’t have an effective hard copy by having your own memory stick or similar you don’t have anything. When stuff is in the cloud its no longer in your custody. I still buy books, CD’s and DVD’s in preference to on line options as well – there’s something nice about having them on the shelf. These things may be clutter to some but I think they make a home warm and tactile rather than cold and sterile.
- KG says:
  
  May 10, 2016 at 08:36
  
  “.. These things may be clutter to some but I think they make a home warm and tactile rather than cold and sterile.”
  YES!
  - Bo Chandler says:
    
    May 10, 2016 at 22:38
    
    Part of our cultural shift is that we have become a civilisation of home-rental gypsies. Possessions become a chore. Not many people would invest in a workshop lathe if they had to move it every six months to a year. Not many people invest in quality furniture that’s going to get scratched and dented going through thirty doorways in ten years.
    
    As for discs, my compromise is to have all of my DVDs in disc wallets. The covers I can ditch. The resale value is insignificant anyway.