iTunes Music Store Goes Live in 12 New European Countries

winston1236 · Sep 28, 2011

wow its incredible how long it took, too bad the itunes model is on the way out and the spotify model coming in

kiwiboi87 · Sep 28, 2011

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iTunes 11 next week.
I hope New Zealand will get a better range of iBooks, all of our books are free useless ones.

And also I hope they expand tv shows to New Zealand as well.

algiris · Sep 28, 2011

kiwiboi87 said:
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iTunes 11 next week.
I hope New Zealand will get a better range of iBooks, all of our books are free useless ones.

And also I hope they expand tv shows to New Zealand as well.

Useless? Are you okay?

marcelvelky · Sep 28, 2011

!

iTunes Music is already working in Slovakia, thanx

lukaszsw · Sep 28, 2011

AidenShaw said:
Friendly English grammar note - "Sweden" and "Polish" (noun and adjective) should be capitalized since they refer to countries.

It was easy to recognize that "here in sweden" should have been "here in Sweden".

However, on first reading "a polish store" would be a store that makes things shiny (it "polishes" them).

Just a helpful comment - my French is mediocre, my Spanish bad, my German and Italian barely understandable - but my Thai is fine in restaurants (although tonal languages are very hard for me - I get confused because to me "I'd like sauteed eggplant" and "your grandmother is a slut" sound very similar in Thai). I assume that the waitstaff is being polite and assumes that I'm talking about eggplant, regardless of what I actually said.

I actually know that but it I choose to use my native language grammar rules ( because it was 2 a.m) and I typed it twice hoping that iPad would correct me ( again 2 a.m.), then gave up.

Back to the topic: iTunes Store. Poland. Finally.
Oh, the prices are in € obviously and because of that we pay 1.4 times the price. Not that attractive.

0997853 · Sep 28, 2011

I can confirm. iTunes Music is working on my iPhone in Romania. :apple:

I hope I get the music I want.

MaticBo · Sep 28, 2011

Music store finally works in Slovenia.

pepitko · Sep 28, 2011

This is awesome, hello from Slovakia and Czech Republic, after years of being neglected it seems that music industry indeed wants our money. Thumbs up for Apple for going through all of the local laws.

cudo · Sep 29, 2011

AidenShaw said:
Friendly English grammar note - "Sweden" and "Polish" (noun and adjective) should be capitalized since they refer to countries.

lol, I guess he/she followed Polish grammar where adjective, even if it refers to a country keeps lower case. Only country name gets capitalized.

As to the store itself i got some questions:

Where is Polish music? (I don't mean Brodka)
Where are books? (Project Gutenberg?)
Where are movies? (We don't need subtitles!)

Is it April fools' day yet?

Apple, never gonna change.

k995 · Sep 29, 2011

Wauw overpriced DRM ridles books and movies thats really what people were waiting for.

lantinian · Sep 29, 2011

Yes

I am from Bulgaria guys, got my first iPhone there in Sep 2007.

This is huge news for me. I can finally tag a song with SoundHound and buy it if I want it bad.

decafjava · Sep 29, 2011

cxny said:
I haven't opened iTunes except to listen to NPR since Spotify was released in the US. This model is BROKEN.

No everyone has unlimited data or ADSL-still cheaper than most retail (not Amazon but Amazon is available in fewer places than the iTunes store

).

Anyway, the real problems/bad guys have always been the record companies. Don't know why folks pick on Apple and Amazon for that.

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cudo said:
lol, I guess he/she followed Polish grammar where adjective, even if it refers to a country keeps lower case. Only country name gets capitalized.

As to the store itself i got some questions:

Where is Polish music? (I don't mean Brodka)
Where are books? (Project Gutenberg?)
Where are movies? (We don't need subtitles!)

Is it April fools' day yet?

Apple, never gonna change.

Again fault of the publishers here. We just got paid books in Switzerland for the first time.

bradkrischel · Sep 29, 2011

More profits for Apple

hakuin · Sep 29, 2011

iTunes Music Store Goes Live in 12 New European Countries

None of those countries are particularly new.

Some are hardly countries neither.

steadysignal · Sep 29, 2011

Mad-B-One said:
There are so many local laws regarding copyright and charges for publishing content which is copyright protected that it takes some time until one can offer services. Remember that most youtube videos are not accessible in Germany, a country with roughly 85 million people because the regulatory agency GEMA is blocking potential violations from the get-go.

lets hope it all works out for everyone involved then...

phasornc · Sep 29, 2011

What to do you mean Latin America doesn't have iTunes. We've had it here in Miami for years!

apernett said:
...when is Apple going to place its eye on Latin America? Do they know that Netflix already rolled over here, right? right?

Sarcasm aside, I don't blame Apple, I blame movie studios and music labels. Their archaeological way of doing business is quite irritating. Here in Latin America we have a very sincere lust for paid content at a fair price and good service and again and again they block Amazon, Apple and others to expand content not only to Latin America but the rest of the world as well. Yes, I know there is something called Copyright laws, but when it comes to money and their survival, does that archaic rules apply? Wake up guys, you're not in the 20th century anymore.

Photics · Sep 29, 2011

bradkrischel said:
More profits for Apple

This is opportunity for developers too. I've been looking forward to more languages added to the iTunes App Store. Maybe this means that Apple is going to expand the App Store languages soon too.

prspectiv2 · Sep 29, 2011

There are 12 new European countries?!! Fantastic! The mommy and daddy countries must be so proud.

apernett · Sep 29, 2011

phasornc said:
What to do you mean Latin America doesn't have iTunes. We've had it here in Miami for years!

LMAO! yes, you have a funny AND valid point

tucotuti · Sep 29, 2011

ok, now come to Brazil!

Dualica · Sep 30, 2011

Films to Norway

Finally getting films to Norway. Haven't looked much into it, but the few I looked at: they are overpriced, the dvd's in the stores are much cheaper.

The point is: choice! If we wish, we could

And that's good news!

EDIT: Okay, I had a closer look. There are not only cheaper movies, there are also movies one doesn't find on the dvd market. So a big thumbs up for movies on itunes!!!

(downloading my first of two movies

)

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