I must confess: I saw this coming!
Though, not by Apple.
Let me explain.
Several years ago, I purchased a book for my Kindle from Amazon.
Several weeks later, the book was updated.
Without my permission! Without any notification, either!
And, due to copyright issues, the book could not be reverted to the original state.
At least, Amazon offered me a refund. To make me happy.
Right there and then though, I decided I wouldn’t purchase any media I could not own outright, and free from the “revisionaries’ at media firms.
I like the book?
I buy the book. The “wood book”, as my Princess likes to call actual books.
Oh, I also purchase the actual movies. Which I can rip later to digital if a digital version isn’t offered. (They almost always are, so I add them to my iTunes library.”
But, I buy the movie.
Heck, there was even a time I wanted to purchase a digital record album from Amazon.
Digital album was $12.95 or thereabouts.
Not bad, you say?
Not bad, actually…..
…..except the physical CD was $6.95, and came with Amazon’s ‘Auto-Rip’, whereby a digital copy is ripped for you, uploaded to your Amazon music library, and available for your instant aural pleasure while your physical CD is sent to you via snail mail!
Don’t ask. I got into pretzels trying to figure out Amazon’s theorem on this!
Bottom line is: I keep it old skool: I gets mines in hard copy.
Try it.
Fast forward to 2018, and Apple does the same, but compounds their mess, and totally FUBAR’s the customer’s experience by offering basically a ‘Coke-and-a-smile’?
Damn!
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