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Apple Announces 2013 iTunes Festival in London Scheduled for September
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It's advertising.
Recordings of the live appearances go on the iTunes store and make money.
You can watch them on iTunes, which makes people use iTunes and often buy stuff.
And lots of the recordings will be shown on TV, which gets the name "iTunes" out to the world.
For the artists, it is also advertising - first their name appears on iTunes when people can ask for free tickets. Then they are advertised on the iTunes store, and they get TV appearances. I'd be curious at the total cost for Apple, but I don't think it will be too high.
Yes, bring an umbrella. But you might be lucky and get our one week of sunshine that we didn't get all summer but we get in September and call an 'Indian summer'.
I loved the iTunes festival in the early years (around 2008/2009). I live within walking distance of the Roundhouse so its a rather convenient location!
Between tickets won by me and my friends, I got to see quite a few amazing shows back then.
But in the last few years it's popularity has increased, I guess, and so it has become extremely hard to get tickets. I applied for lots of shows in both 2011 and 2012 but failed to win a single one
I notice there are usually long lines of people without tickets waiting to get in before the shows these days, too, so perhaps they reserve some of the tickets for people on the day now.
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Err, Northern Ireland is part of the UK. It's also part of the island of Ireland, but not the island of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland is also on the island of Ireland. It's not part of the UK.
Between tickets won by me and my friends, I got to see quite a few amazing shows back then.
But in the last few years it's popularity has increased, I guess, and so it has become extremely hard to get tickets. I applied for lots of shows in both 2011 and 2012 but failed to win a single one
I notice there are usually long lines of people without tickets waiting to get in before the shows these days, too, so perhaps they reserve some of the tickets for people on the day now.
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Err, Northern Ireland is part of the UK. It's also part of the island of Ireland, but not the island of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland is also on the island of Ireland. It's not part of the UK.
*puts pedant head on*
To clear things up - it's actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (surprising how few British people know that!), Great Britain being the island on which you can find England, Scotland and Wales. As mentioned previously, Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland, the residents of NI can choose to have an Irish or a UK passport. Even if they choose to have an Irish passport, they'll still be paying UK taxes!
*takes pedant head off and gets back to work*
To clear things up - it's actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (surprising how few British people know that!), Great Britain being the island on which you can find England, Scotland and Wales. As mentioned previously, Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland, the residents of NI can choose to have an Irish or a UK passport. Even if they choose to have an Irish passport, they'll still be paying UK taxes!
*takes pedant head off and gets back to work*
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Err, Northern Ireland is part of the UK. It's also part of the island of Ireland, but not the island of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland is also on the island of Ireland. It's not part of the UK.[/QUOTE]
I'm aware NI is part of the UK. No need to be pedantic. When referring to ROI most just say Ireland. As I said ROI is part of the British Isles, as are Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man which are not part of the UK. Anyway, great to have the iTunes Festival back in London.
Err, Northern Ireland is part of the UK. It's also part of the island of Ireland, but not the island of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland is also on the island of Ireland. It's not part of the UK.[/QUOTE]
I'm aware NI is part of the UK. No need to be pedantic. When referring to ROI most just say Ireland. As I said ROI is part of the British Isles, as are Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man which are not part of the UK. Anyway, great to have the iTunes Festival back in London.
"This years iTunes Festival is the best ever" - WOW! Ain't that INCREDIBLE? The BEST EVER! AMAZING!
You gotta love marketing...
Complaining
, it's FREE!Yes, why do the Brits get all the free concerts
Because we, the British public have to pay all the tax that is dodged by larger companies who operate in the UK..
One problem in the USA, wherever you do it, it is a loooong way from a huge portion of the population.
True, but it's over 30 nights so they could spread it around and hit more areas.
That's one great thing about festivals.
I heard Funkadelic at one a couple of years ago. Now i'm hooked. Free your mind and your ass will follow!
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If you did it in say, Baltimore, you'd have NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore, Newark, and all of Connecticut within driving range.
That's a whole lot more people than 30 stadiums would hold. Hell, you'd get people from Pittsburgh coming in.
Well that's a massively uninspiring line up! What a bag of wank!
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A large number of people in this country are ********* stupid - I recently met someone who has lived in England since 1979 until recently had never even HEARD of Ireland.
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A large number of people in this country are ********* stupid - I recently met someone who has lived in England since 1979 until recently had never even HEARD of Ireland.
Think about that. Please, just think about that statistic for just a minute.
Roughly 200 countries in the world, and just one of those makes up a third of sales. That's a pretty huge ****ing chunk for one country to contribute.
Quit a bit yeah.
1/3 US
1/3 EU
Close to 1/3 in ~50 countries outside of the EU and US
The rest is almost 0%
Apple does not sell in 200 countries.
This of course is just guessing/estimate.
The iTunes Festival app is pretty impressive, and more importantly, the infrastructure for delivering the video is very solid. Apple has a history of testing future technologies in public, disguised just enough to hide their true purpose. For example, those little click-wheel iPod games were used to test technologies that are crucial to iOS and the App Store: purchasing, downloading, installing, and updating software on a portable device.
So perhaps Apple is using the iTunes Festival app to exercise and demonstrate Apple's video delivery technologies. For, yes, you guessed it, Apple's eventual television solution. Live streamed video, on-demand recorded video, millions of simultaneous connections, all proof-of-concept that Apple's television solution works. Ready and waiting for the right time to disrupt the television industry. Just a thought.
Blimey guys...you have absolutely no sense of humour.
Apple is currently under fire in the UK (as they are in the US) for not paying enough tax, as is Amazon, Google, et al. They pay tax in the Republic of Ireland instead. Thus the joke: 'So that Apple can pay their tax in the Republic of Ireland instead [of paying them in the UK].'