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iTunes Europe Music Event Quicktime
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redAPPLE said:
I think your best bet would be to get your friends to buy the songs with their account, transfer them to your iPod, and take them home.
The only problem with that is, I don't think you'd be able to transfer them onto your Mac at home and play them without having a valid account to authorize the Mac.
gooddog said:
i personally do not think there was any plan or idea by placing the us flag in the center.
as i saw that, i thought they would be placing the "pan european flag" on the lower left (is this even the picture you mean? the one where the lower left stayed empty?).
Gosh that was a rather tough crowd. I am glad that the iTunes music store is (finally!) available in the UK, and have already made a purchase or two. I guess the issue is that there was nothing *new* to release - well at least no new hardware etc.
Nevertheless, I am pleased that I can now use *all* of iTunes
Had I been there I think I would have cheered a little more. I wonder if that "ad" that was shown at the start of the keynote will be available - it was rather cool.
Have a nice day!
Nevertheless, I am pleased that I can now use *all* of iTunes
Had I been there I think I would have cheered a little more. I wonder if that "ad" that was shown at the start of the keynote will be available - it was rather cool.Have a nice day!
No. Your gift certificate has to be bought and used in the same country. The guys from "yourmaclife.com" did that very experiment and found out that it will not work any other way.redAPPLE said:
Probably so that he can focus a bit easier. His eyes don't have to wander all of some huge forest of a screen to find what they need.Corozive said:
g4cubed said:Damn, was the audience from Microsoft.
Well, they did use an HP notebook to do the demonstration....
I think this was to prove the point that Airtunes can work with both PCs and Macs because the audience were more likely to be interested in what technology Apple is developing for the PC market, given that they were only ordinary journalists and therefore not likely to be as aware of Macs as the people at the WWDC etc.
Corozive said:
I guess the resolution of the projector for the big 'screen' on the wall is limited in size, and since you would like to mirror your computer's screen to the one on the wall during a demo, there is no point in using a bigger screen.
g4cubed said:Damn, was the audience from Microsoft.
I totally agree. I was especially saddened that Alicia Keyes got such a lukewarm reception. I think should would have had a great time with them if they had just opened up to her. Perhaps they should of had a European artists to perform. Too American-centered.
I think the proof will be in the pudding: the number of downloads in the first 4 weeks...
I'm not expecting a big pudding here....
I'm not expecting a big pudding here....
Savage Henry said:
Well, I dunno about that. I've seen iTMS UK banner ads on most of the major UK portals, bus stops and on google adwords.
also, let's not forget the bus stop adverts.
asif786 said:
Granted, I've seen tonnes of ads, and I've had a considerably umber of people tell me they are aware of the product, but I've just not heard of many people downloading from it.
These forums are full of loyal fans, many of which feel jipped that too many artists, though named, have NIL content. I gave up searching for specifically named artists and chose to randomly browse, with little reward.
Once they get the indies up and running it should be a different matter.
I agree completely. It stunned me because I had always thought of her as just another singer in the crowd playing singing songs she didn't even write.ryanw said:
But she's a very good piano player and now I'm questioning that she doesn't write her own stuff .... in any case it was enough to make me go out and buy some of her stuff, I was quite impressed.
I tried the same thing, sent a friend a $10 gift certificate over to the UK. It told him he could only use it for the US store, but he also needed a US card to use the US store, even though he had a valid UK account. My card had already been charged though so there was these $10 sitting in limbo. I e-mailed Apple about it and they refunded me the $10 thankfully.JGowan said:
Deggy said:
cool ,which channel did you see it on?
(p.s. do you mean as in just a couple of mins ago, right?)
as mentioned in this thread there are loads of reasons why the audience wasn't very receptive.
we have had to wait ages and ages for this music store, admittedly not necessarily apple's fault but still frustrating. napster had already launched in the uk and od2 has been around a while meaning that the announcement wasn't really that major. the release had been tainted by the lack of indies, searching though the uk music store is a joke they are missing so much stuff. nearly every imix is complaining about the lack of indies.
above all british/european crowds just don't respond the same way american crowds do. watch british tv and you don't get the loud cheering and whooping or whatever. it's just one of those things.
we have had to wait ages and ages for this music store, admittedly not necessarily apple's fault but still frustrating. napster had already launched in the uk and od2 has been around a while meaning that the announcement wasn't really that major. the release had been tainted by the lack of indies, searching though the uk music store is a joke they are missing so much stuff. nearly every imix is complaining about the lack of indies.
above all british/european crowds just don't respond the same way american crowds do. watch british tv and you don't get the loud cheering and whooping or whatever. it's just one of those things.
brightlights said:
It'd be nice if it was like that in the US every once in a while. Someone do a commercial that isn't shouting at me!