Canada iTMS November 30?

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T minus 28 minutes

... 28 minutes left here on the West Coast.... then all bets are off and its anyone's guess... if that happens, hopefully they will post what the reason for the delay was so we won't spend another month or two....or three.... or eight wondering... at 12:01 I will download a song from PureTracks and go to bed....
 
Scandals said:
This is retarded, eh?
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Fair enough.. Something came up and they couldn't meet their target date.


BUT!

Why can't they inform people of what's going on with a simple press release? Heck, they told the Globe and Mail that the store was till on track for a November release only 5 days ago!

Apple! SPEAK!
 
Purty darn funny...

Bark said:
25 min left. Seems someone sent us George W. instead
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That's probably the funniest thing I've read all night.
Send Dubya back! We want the iTMS Canada!

If it launches by midnight – FREE BEER and DONUTS for everyone!
 
erbium said:
Fair enough.. Something came up and they couldn't meet their target date.


BUT!

Why can't they inform people of what's going on with a simple press release? Heck, they told the Globe and Mail that the store was till on track for a November release only 5 days ago!

Apple! SPEAK!
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It's called marketing... create hype whether or not you are certain you can deliver... keeps people talking and this case - refreshing their browsers on the Apple site a couple hundred times an hour...
 
I just wanna pay for music, is that so wrong?

Reloads on the flag page seem a lot faster now for some reason... Hmmm...
 
BCwaiting said:
It's called marketing... create hype whether or not you are certain you can deliver... keeps people talking and this case - refreshing their browsers on the Apple site a couple hundred times an hour...
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No this is not marketing. This is Apple not explaining themselves when so far we've heard from Apple PR, and the CEO, that the store would be available in November.

If you're going to tell 30 million people something WILL be available, and then fail to follow through, and THEN fail to let people know why... If this is marketing, then Apple's marketing team sure is doing a good job of pissing people off...
 
erbium said:
No this is not marketing. This is Apple not explaining themselves when so far we've heard from Apple PR, and the CEO, that the store would be available in November.

If you're going to tell 30 million people something WILL be available, and then fail to follow through, and THEN fail to let people know why... If this is marketing, then Apple's marketing team sure is doing a good job of pissing people off...
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I believe they had every intention of getting it online by end of Nov. Something happened, maybe a licensing snarl.. and the last thing you do is post a press release blaming the authority that holds your greenlight. Don't piss off the Gods.
 
well no store for now. i cant even get the flags page. i say mwsf then is our next likely date.

edit: i can officially go into the stores but lack of canada is still there.
 
December on the West Coast

Well guys its December on the West Coast... and a final launch of iTune shows they didn't make it.

Off to seek comfort at PureTracks... download a tune or two and hit the sack.
 
Hmmmm... I'm kinda regretting not doing math homework now... :(

EDIT: Well this has been one helluva an evening. Ken Jennings loses on Jeopardy! No iTMS Canada! And I didn't do math homework!

"Muwahhhhhaffff"

Han Solo - "You said it Chewie."
 
bah! this blows. it's 0:03 and there's still no Canada store. at least i can get into all the other stores now...
 
Well I don't think we will ever see iTMS Canada :( well not till next November. On to Aus and Japan iTMS.
 
If there was a last minute legal issue, you can bet that Apple has spent all night negotiating with these people to get it sorted.

So, they may have missed the deadline, but I reckon they wont tell you guys to wait till mwsf. I reckon you'll get it in the next few hours.

My question is, why would apple leave negotiations so late? This is exactly what they did with the UK Store..(hence no indies at the start)/

/asif
 
BCwaiting said:
I believe they had every intention of getting it online by end of Nov. Something happened, maybe a licensing snarl.. and the last thing you do is post a press release blaming the authority that holds your greenlight. Don't piss off the Gods.
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Sounds likely. Apple has to say SOMETHING on Wednesday (maybe a quote to MacCentral or something equally informal), but it may have to be vague, even if they'd LOVE to take the low road and point fingers :)

The fact that they didn't say something TUESDAY suggests that they really thought they could make it happen. But they didn't.

Unless... does Canada have any islands outside of Pacific Time? ;)


asif786 said:
My question is, why would apple leave negotiations so late?
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Who's to say they did? Apple may have had everything in order... and then someone ELSE (recording industry?) jumped in with a last-minute objection and the legal backing to make an issue of it.

And technical issues are still a possible cause too.
 
Goshdarnitall

Well...this bites. Stayed up until midnight for nuttin.
Steve should stop running his mouth off....3 ghz....in November...
yada yada yada.

Thanks a lot Steve, now I'm gonna be tired for work tomorrow.
Stupid world.
 
nagromme said:
Unless... does Canada have any islands outside of Pacific Time? ;)
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Doesn't Alaska have a time zone outside of Pacific time? You could lend it for a hour. Or even Hawaii.
 
well, all European stores seem to be off-line... apple.com and apple.ca aren't. I guess this means that iTMS IE will be launched today.
 
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