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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by hoopism on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:26PM (#8320484)
Don't discount this as a way of getting non-apple fanboys talking about apple. Hell, I didn't even know U2 was alive... now I am talking about them.

I am sure it wasn't the intended purpose... but there's a lot of pub on this... and it certainly doesn't seem to be affecting sales.

Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by idlewords on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:54PM (#8320672)
I think nothing short of a meteor impact could affect sales. But Apple seems to be taking some risks here with its image. It's real easy to seem uncool if you're bungling a marketing campaign and imposing a dad album on everyone, in a way they find intrusive.

And it's a bad idea to seem uncool right before you launch a very expensive line of fashion accessories. All it took was one photo of showering Scoble to forever make Google glasses radioactive.