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App Store Launches in 32 New Countries

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At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, Tim Cook announced that the App Store would be launching in 32 additional countries this month, bringing the total number of countries with App Store access to 155. As documented in the country-selection page within the iTunes Store, those 32 new markets are now available, although Apple has yet to update its support page listing which iTunes Store content is available in which countries.

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The vast majority of new countries are located in Apple's African and Asian markets, with the exception of Albania and Ukraine in Europe. The full list of new App Store countries includes: Albania, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe.

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kockgunner

kockgunner

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Denmark doesn't have one yet? Wow. I wonder why it took so long to bring the App Store to these countries and how well the iPhone sold with only stock apps available.
 
dra

dra

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might be legal and tax issues for Denmark , Congo tax free :)

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Good to See PNG and Fiji there i know alot of companies that been waiting for that. time to make me some apps :)
 
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vartanarsen

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Dont understand why peope care about app store availability. U.S. store s ALWAYS available wherever ou are...just scroll to the bottom of iTunes registration page and change flag to U.s.
 
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dra

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vartanarsen said:
Dont understand why peope care about app store availability. U.S. store s ALWAYS available wherever ou are...just scroll to the bottom of iTunes registration page and change flag to U.s.
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and how will external countries pay for their app purchases with a non-us card ?
 
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aajeev

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vartanarsen said:
Dont understand why peope care about app store availability. U.S. store s ALWAYS available wherever ou are...just scroll to the bottom of iTunes registration page and change flag to U.s.
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It has something to do with payment.
 
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AIP5

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Why haven't they updated the map of Africa to include the South Sudan split from Sudan? Is this the case in Apple Maps too? :confused:
 
brdeveloper

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I hope they'll pay local taxes instead of just launching stores in native languages that sell in US dolar and in practice are american stores translated to other languages. It's like a brazilian person, living in Brazil, buying stuff from an Amazon site translated to portuguese. This is nothing different to contraband.
 
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marioguarneros

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APP store NOT APPLE store...

I can see that a lot of people have misunderstood the article, they are talking about the APP store (apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod) not APPLE store (hardware and software such as Macs and MBP's) Also in some countries we have only online versions of the Apple store but no physical retail shops.
 
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