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Can I buy and use apps from different stores?

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juliancs

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Aug 24, 2006
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Hi folks

I'm starting to work on a few iOS game projects as a sound designer/composer. I get codes from the developers for the apps and I'm wondering : can I "log in" to the Apple US store and get an App, and use it on my UK iPhone? I don't actually have an iPhone yet, but one of the codes I got only works in the US store (the dev can't give out any other). I assume when I'm setup I'll be on the UK store so...how does this work?

Hope that makes sense!
 
You can only if you have an account in those stores. You would need to open a US iTunes account if you want to download apps from that store.
 
Surely said:
You can only if you have an account in those stores. You would need to open a US iTunes account if you want to download apps from that store.
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Thanks for the response. I assume there is no problem with having a few accounts? I can just sign into the different ones?
 
juliancs said:
Thanks for the response. I assume there is no problem with having a few accounts? I can just sign into the different ones?
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Exactly. It just makes updating the apps annoying when the devs release updates..... you have to sign into each store to get each update.
 
Surely said:
Exactly. It just makes updating the apps annoying when the devs release updates..... you have to sign into each store to get each update.
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More than happy to put up with that for the sake of getting some work! Thanks very much for the info - lastly, I assume I'm ok linking both my Us and UK account to the same card for payment? I would use a UK debit card but suspect that it would not work on the Us store, so I'd use my Credit card...

Cheers!
 
juliancs said:
More than happy to put up with that for the sake of getting some work! Thanks very much for the info - lastly, I assume I'm ok linking both my Us and UK account to the same card for payment? I would use a UK debit card but suspect that it would not work on the Us store, so I'd use my Credit card...

Cheers!
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I'm pretty sure that you'll have to have a US billing address in order to sign up for a US account. Or you'll have to get your hands on a US iTunes gift card to register for an account.

The reason I have a Canadian account as well as a US account is because I have it from when I lived in Canada.
 
Surely said:
I'm pretty sure that you'll have to have a US billing address in order to sign up for a US account. Or you'll have to get your hands on a US iTunes gift card to register for an account.

The reason I have a Canadian account as well as a US account is because I have it from when I lived in Canada.
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Hmm.. i'll have to look into that. Thanks for the answers, man!
 
Can you use the same email for your us account that is linked to my UK account?


I only want a us account for the UFC app which isn't available in the UK?
 
I have two accounts, one US and one German.

You can easily switch between the different stores and download and use the apps perfectly fine.

However, you need to switch accounts when looking for updates in the AppStore, and you cannot easily sync apps because your iTunes account can only be logged in one account at a time.
 
If you have a US gift card, then it won't ask you for a credit card number and you can put a dummy address for the billing address. That's what I did when I opened an account with the Japanese store and it worked perfectly.
 
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