ITunes Music Store launches in 4 More Countries 45
Paal Unanue-Zahl writes "I've just published the news in our blog, iTunes Music Store has opened in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. As for Australia, no dice. It seems that a record company is holding up the launch for the Aussies. We are waiting for official confirmation from Apple later on Tuesday, but purchases are possible with credit cards from Norway and the country icon shows up in the 'Select country' page. Finally."
who could this possibly be? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:1)
Ah, a test of wills. Let's see who breaks first.
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:1)
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sony are starting a new online music store called Connect which is direct competition with Apple's iTunes store.
There is an unnamed record label who are hampering Apple's progress in Australia (and potentially New Zealand).
Sony owns a record label.
Thus: Sony are probably the company who are slowing down Apple's progress.
sigh.
My maths may be wrong and I may be mistaken in my assumption, but please don't mod if you don't understand the topic you're moderating.
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:1)
I didn't understand that you were trying to make that point when I read your first post. I thought you were just saying "oh look, Sony has a music store too".
Thanks for clarifying.
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Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:3, Funny)
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A new CD in New Zealand currently runs around NZ$30, which was fine when our currency was valued around
New Zealand has an active home grown music scene and if Apple could come in and help this market then they would also have a good opportunity for other
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:2)
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granted, but when you think of how the retail market for CDs has depreciated, the negligible cost 15 years ago for pressed CDs compared to the negligible cost now for pressed CDs is probably considerably more profitable than 15 years ago.
man, that's the longest sentence I've written in a while. hopefully it makes sense - my head hurts too much to revise it.
Re:who could this possibly be? (Score:2)
At the risk of putting words into your mouth I'm assuming you meant that even though the cost of pressing CD:s is and has always negligible, it's still lower than 15 years ago.
I think you need to look up what the word negligible means [reference.com].
The fact that a negligible cost has lowered will have a negligible effect on the price of the final product. Which is entirely in line with what has happened.
Of course, this is i
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however, even though I've watched some of my DVDs 3 or 4 times, most of my CDs have been listened to 80,000 times.
but that doesn't stop me wanting to pay less for CDs. I seem to have amassed hundreds when I was younger, but now life gets in the way and I'd be lucky if I bought 1 or 2 CDs a year.
About time... (Score:4, Insightful)
Most people I know (including myself) download pirate copies off the Internet because of sheer convenience. I'm simply too lazy to go to the store and buy something (which might not even be in stock, but on order only), when I can just download a copy off the Internet and get it instantly.
Now if the industry could just get a similar model going for movies and TV shows instead of suing file sharers...
Can the media industry take note... I don't pirate because I want your stuff for free, but because it's more convenient. You can't compete effectively against electronic delivery with outdated models based on shipping optical discs to people!
Unfortunately though, the iTunes music store doesn't seem to accept my credit card information. (No, I will not post the information so you can check out what's wrong
Re:About time... (Score:2)
These things will probably be sorted out soon. The only thing really bothering me is that the music selection i pretty bad. I wanna shop in the american store
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Ob. Quote (Score:5, Funny)
And dammit, now I have "Dancing Queen" in my head.
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However, many of these are duplicates as they come from different albums.
Is there a Japanese iTunes? (Score:2)
I have no interest in most American music, so the American version of iTunes is pretty useless to me, but I would be very interested in buying songs from iTunes if there was a Japanese version.
Re:Is there a Japanese iTunes? (Score:1)
(There's no Japanese ITMS. To change your music store country, click on "Choose store" on the left side of the main page.)
More karma whoring... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is there a Japanese iTunes? (Score:2)
Shimatta.
(Dammit...oh well, thanks anyway.)
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Ah, I've taught someone how to swear in another language...my day is now complete.
Re:Is there a Japanese iTunes? (Score:1)
Works for me. I've been in Tokyo about 2 years and it's never been a problem for me.
Re:Is there a Japanese iTunes? (Score:2)
Most recording companies only license the songs to iTunes or other resellers on a per-country basis. If Apple opens a Japan store and offers songs and you buy them, it is still probably illegal for you to download them to the U.S. since the license to make a copy in the U.S. is quite probably owned by a completely different company. P.S. the intellectual property business is a mess.
Slightly offtopic, but.. (Score:1)
Re:Slightly offtopic, but.. (Score:2, Interesting)
I seem to remembering this having caused quite a ruckus with the European Union when UK citizens were not allowed to use non-UK iTunes Music Stores. The reason UK citizens would want to do that, is that the ITMS is significantly more expensive in the UK. Because of the pound and all.
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(I know what you actually mean of course - the inexplicably higher prices the British always pay, the take-off-the-dollar-sign-and-stick-on-a-pound-sig n price conversions, but that's something which happens in spite of the pound's strength, and is instead directly attributable to British weather and the mustn't-grumble mantra.)
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Re:Slightly offtopic, but.. (Score:4, Informative)
Worse than that, the credit card needs to be issued in the country where you want an account.
I live in Belgium, have a credit card, but the card is not issued in Belgium - therefore Apple rejects my attempts to sign up to iTMS.
Re:Slightly offtopic, but.. (Score:1)
I've got a few friends who might be willing to do that for me, once a Japanese iTunes comes along.
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About time (Score:2)
Also -- i bought an ipod a year ago in anticipation it would be "right around the corner" for the European iTMS.. Well finally
Cool, about time (Score:3, Interesting)