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iTMS Australia In January?

ChrisH3677 said:
Now, sadly I'll have to put on my cynical mask. Despite the conversion rate being only 1.31, I fear Apple Australia will find a "justification" for making it at least 1.5

$1.29 per song would be a miracle. Anything less than $1.49 will be a amazing. But I expect more like $1.79, even $1.99

.Mac is $158 so maybe it'll be "only" $1.59 per song.

I hope they surprise me though.
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I am sure Apple will go for a nice round figure that is cheap enough to pull users. Apple Australia will have no part in that, only Apple US as that is where all the iTMS strings are pulled. My bet is $0.99 much as it is with the US and Europe.
 
Rian said:
I'm in Tucson, AZ now, but will be moving to Wollongong, Australia in February... I've been waiting for this announcement! Hopefully this way I won't have to go without my iTunes at all!! :)
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From what i understand, you can buy from any store you have a credit card for. So if you have a US VISA card, you can buy from the US store no matter what country you're in. And that goes the same for any of the stores available.

Am I right here??
 
ryanw said:
From what i understand, you can buy from any store you have a credit card for. So if you have a US VISA card, you can buy from the US store no matter what country you're in. And that goes the same for any of the stores available.

Am I right here??
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That's my understanding as well. On the flip side of this, I tried ordering my brother (who lives in NY) an iTMS GC for Christmas, however since I am in Canada, and only have access to the Canadian iTMS, I couldn't do it!
 
This is great news for all of our friends in Oz! You guys deserve it, so let's hope this rumor is true! I find is suspicious that Apple Oz would coincide an announcement with MWSF, so I'm thinking there's a pretty good chance of this coming to be. And, if Jobs is going to make a point during his keynote to introduce iTMS Oz, then why not announce a few more as it is, like a couple in Asia or something?

Definitely looking forward to MWSF... :cool:
 
Bring it on!!!

BornAgainMac said:
I am surprised Japan doesn't have one. When I think of Japan, I think of gadgets and high-tech. Australia is a surprise, I thought they had laws that made having a online music store impossible.
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It isn't illegal to have a digital copy, however it is illegal to change to format, i.e. from cd to digital/casette. Bastards. So you can buy a cd, but according to the law, all you actually own is the plastic, and the right to listen to the music on that said plastic. (but not in a public place, on oil rigs, etc.).

As for iTunes AU, BRING IT ON!!!
 
~Shard~ said:
That's my understanding as well. On the flip side of this, I tried ordering my brother (who lives in NY) an iTMS GC for Christmas, however since I am in Canada, and only have access to the Canadian iTMS, I couldn't do it!
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No, you can access the US iTMS from Canada. I've entered the UK iTMS before as well.
 
Why bother?

No offense to Aussies, but why would Apple even bother? It's an incredibly small market. The population of the entire country is only that of a good size US state, and it's something like half the population of California. I just can't imagine that Apple will ever recoup the investment to set up specific stores, license agreements, etc. for such small countries.
 
rog said:
No offense to Aussies, but why would Apple even bother? It's an incredibly small market. The population of the entire country is only that of a good size US state, and it's something like half the population of California. I just can't imagine that Apple will ever recoup the investment to set up specific stores, license agreements, etc. for such small countries.
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The population of Australia is roughly 20 million people, I think (I could be horribly wrong), so a launch of iTMS by Apple there wouldn't be unheard of - look at some of the European countires it launched in - or Canada too - our population is not much over 30 million, which is still smaller than California... ;)

Regardless, I definitely wouldn't say that it's an "incredibly small market".
 
Abstract said:
No, you can access the US iTMS from Canada. I've entered the UK iTMS before as well.
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You can enter, but you cannot order from it. I cannot order a US iTMS GC witha non-US credit card - I even phoned Apple directly and they informed me there was no way to do what I was wanting to do. No worries though, I just sent him a money order... ;)
 
Nermal said:
Yeah, I hope so too. Most of the record companies over here seem to have the rights for both AU and NZ, so hopefully Apple will be able to release iTMS in both countries simultaneously.
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In Apple's eyes NZ is an State of Australia.. sad but true
Will speak to my contacts and see
 
Nz State of Aus

appleguy said:
In Apple's eyes NZ is an State of Australia.. sad but true
Will speak to my contacts and see
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That's rather funny as according to the Australian Constitution

6. "The Commonwealth" shall mean the Commonwealth of Australia as established under this Act.


"The States" shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called "a State".
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Strange I have no idea what that's all about. :confused:


edit: oh yeah I really hope we get an iTMS here, also I hope it will be $0.99, though I highly doubt it.
 
You little beauty!!

I thought we would never get it....I really hope they can include the Kiwis as well, that'll help out the market numbers a bit...

I have to say though, it would be great to have at least one Apple store, although it'll have to be in Sydney. I could see Steve doing an opening on the harbour under the bridge or whatever...*sniff*.

One day, Melbourne, one day...
 
feeze said:
That's rather funny as according to the Australian Constitution



Strange I have no idea what that's all about. :confused:


edit: oh yeah I really hope we get an iTMS here, also I hope it will be $0.99, though I highly doubt it.
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Its funny as it does talk about that Australia may create a new state, that resides the the state of NSW but may not me more than 100 miles of Sydney.. hmmmm could that be ACT?? this was written in 1900.
and I rest my case. Aussies are trying to claim everything from NZ.. Parts of the South Island :p and even Russell Crowe (although you can have Rus)
 
sunilraman said:
I am absolutely bloody loving it that Oz rumor kids are starting to Represent! on these forums.... yeahhhhh our 15mins of fame (well, 15 days or so....)
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I'm old skool on these boards dude, been here since 01 :)
 
MyLeftNut said:
You little beauty!!

I thought we would never get it....I really hope they can include the Kiwis as well, that'll help out the market numbers a bit...

I have to say though, it would be great to have at least one Apple store, although it'll have to be in Sydney. I could see Steve doing an opening on the harbour under the bridge or whatever...*sniff*.

One day, Melbourne, one day...
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The day Melbourne gets an Apple Store I will apply for a job there. Melbourne is the only city I like of Australia.... Wait a minute isnt NZ part of Aust now?? lol
 
rog said:
No offense to Aussies, but why would Apple even bother? It's an incredibly small market. The population of the entire country is only that of a good size US state, and it's something like half the population of California. I just can't imagine that Apple will ever recoup the investment to set up specific stores, license agreements, etc. for such small countries.
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In a way I totally agree with you, Apple Australia sells about the same amount of Macs that the San Fransisco Bay area sells a year. But there is still a need for a good Music store here and we'll we are iPod crazy down here. So with the growing number of itunes users it's only logical to open up the store.

In Australia ripping your music off a CD and placing it onto an digital music player like the iPod is illegal. So technically down here nobody should be able to use the iPod legally.

I'm all for it, I plan to use the store all the time. :)
 
rog said:
No offense to Aussies, but why would Apple even bother? It's an incredibly small market. The population of the entire country is only that of a good size US state, and it's something like half the population of California. I just can't imagine that Apple will ever recoup the investment to set up specific stores, license agreements, etc. for such small countries.
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But you could apply that logic to anything. Why bother selling anything in a small market? 20 million is 20 million. But the point you make is one reason Apple could charge more for songs.
 
MyLeftNut said:
You little beauty!!

I thought we would never get it....I really hope they can include the Kiwis as well, that'll help out the market numbers a bit...

I have to say though, it would be great to have at least one Apple store, although it'll have to be in Sydney. I could see Steve doing an opening on the harbour under the bridge or whatever...*sniff*.

One day, Melbourne, one day...
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Oh geez! Maybe you're onto something. Maybe they're just going to announce an Apple Store in Oz.

edit: And maybe this supports it: Apple retail initiative just getting started
 
appleguy said:
The day Melbourne gets an Apple Store I will apply for a job there. Melbourne is the only city I like of Australia....
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Why's that? Isn't Sydney okay too?
 
timster said:
Why's that? Isn't Sydney okay too?
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Lets see Sydney is big everyhting is spread out, Plus when I was in Sydney for 3 weeks it done nothing but rain entire time I was there.And temps of about 30 so I was sweeting like a pig. (do pigs sweet :confused:)
Any lets see it (itms) come to us down here
 
feeze said:
That's rather funny as according to the Australian Constitution

6. "The Commonwealth" shall mean the Commonwealth of Australia as established under this Act.


"The States" shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called "a State".

Strange I have no idea what that's all about. :confused:
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also note

"3. It shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appointed, not being later that one year after the passing of this Act, the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also, if Her Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western Australia have agreed thereto, of Western Australia, shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia."


The original set of states were NSW, VIC, SA, QLD and TAS with WA pending at the time of the writing of this constitution. Point 6 that you quoted mentions all commonwealth colonies that can join the commonwealth of Australia as states, "such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States". Note that the Northern Terriroy is also named along with New Zealand, though to this day it is still not a state. I believe they had a vote (possibly a few elections ago) on the question of whether or not they wanted to become a state and they voted to remain a terriroty.

Also, New Zealand it self was initially part of New South Wales at one point, though well before federation of Aus

oh yeah, go iTMS for Aus and hopefully NZ.
 
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