Good to know. Here’s hoping availability expands further in the near future.
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Apple One's Premier Tier Available in 17 Additional Countries Starting Next Week [Update: Now Available]
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jhollington
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There were originally some subtle differences between the two services, with the most notable one being that Apple Music subscribers who weren't also paying for iTunes Match would be stuck with DRM-encumbered Apple Music tracks for tracks matched from their own libraries.
This wasn't a huge problem unless you were looking for free 256kbps AAC upgrades to lower-quality tracks, or you lost your original library and wanted to re-download them from your own library, but it was a notable difference.
However, Apple fixed this back in late 2016, and for all intents and purposes, Apple Music does include iTunes Match, although there is still one interesting difference that I think still applies.... According to a conversation I had with an Apple Senior Product specialist a few years ago, you'll actually be matching your tracks against different catalogues depending on which service you subscribe to. Apple Music subscribers only match against the Apple Music catalogue, while iTunes Match subscribers match tracks against the iTunes Store catalogue. Probably not a significant difference, though, as any tracks that don't match simply get uploaded and stored in your iCloud Music Library anyway.
No sign of this on https://www.apple.com/ie/apple-one/ or https://www.apple.com/es/apple-one/ . The article says that it's supposed to be available now.
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The mexican page doesn't show anything about the Premier Tier either...
I did not restart but now it shows. Maybe they just started enabling it some minutes ago.
Edit: the page still doesn't show anything, but I can see it and select it on my iPhone, which anyway was the point...
A nice touch, IMHO: I was paying 2TB of iCloud storage, and my idea to change to the Premier was to save some. It's not really much (6 pesos or so, ~ 0.30 USD), but still... so, I change the One to the Premier, and they automatically cancelled the iCloud storage, leaving me with 2TB instead of the 2.2TB I had before. I could pay for the iCloud storage still, to get 4TB total, but it's nice that they rearrange the subscriptions automatically.
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jhollington
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No. You need to have a U.S.-based credit card or other payment method.
In fact, Apple doesn't do any kind of geolocation-based restrictions, and never has. It bases your country entirely on your payment method. You can sign up for and use a U.S. account anywhere in the world — no VPN required — as long as you have a U.S. payment method on file.