Yeah, it's a bummer that the Music Store hasn't reached our shores as of yet, but I had the good fortune to be in Miami last week where I surprised myself with a Gift-Certificate at the local AppleStore! It's a work-around but for the time being it works fine for me. (1st post ever!)
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iTunes Music Store Europe - May 2004?
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I also am hanging out for a iTMS here in Australia!
Oh yeah and those groovy looking Altec Lansing speakers for when I travel / and in my office that my 3G 40GB iPOD can sit in!
Anyone heard anymore on Australia apart from the generic rumours of "1st quarter in 2004"???
They will need to hurry up - as there are now other online legal music download sites available here in AUS...
Oh yeah and those groovy looking Altec Lansing speakers for when I travel / and in my office that my 3G 40GB iPOD can sit in!
Anyone heard anymore on Australia apart from the generic rumours of "1st quarter in 2004"???
They will need to hurry up - as there are now other online legal music download sites available here in AUS...
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lol that is so true (if you were ever wondering why so many British CDs have bonus tracks on it's to discourage record stores, supermarkets etc. from importing US CDs and selling them off cheap)
lol that is so true (if you were ever wondering why so many British CDs have bonus tracks on it's to discourage record stores, supermarkets etc. from importing US CDs and selling them off cheap)
yeah i was wondering that, if you buy a gift certificate, do they make u make an account to redeem it and not let you do so until you've entered a valid US credit card number and US postal address or can you just use it fine outside the US?
The UK is the largest single buying nation after the US so they should have brought it here long ago
I knew quite alot of ppl that wanted to get iPods even before the pre-christmas media coverage blitz and also most people I know know of Mac computers, they just don't use them because they don't think you can use anything that doesn't use windows (probably because kids use technology esp. portable music players more than the population in general). However, they are used in the media just as much as in the US, for example RI:SE (is that still on TV?) had a studio full of eMacs and in the French and Saunders christmas special they used a PowerBook. I think Apple Stores would help sales though because Macs are the kind of thing you really need to see and use close up to get you to buy them, and also a large part of thier selling point is how fastidiously designed they are - both in appearence and use - and the Apple Stores are like an epitany of that.
First I must concede I haven't read every post in this thread, but one thing has struck me.
iPod mini is due April 2004 worldwide.
So it would seem sensible to me that Apple does something similar to last year (with iTMS launch and 3G iPods) and have a "Music Event" reiterating the international release of the iPod mini and perhaps the opening of some international music stores?
Personally I can't wait til it comes to Europe.
Sure I download illegally distributed music but very rarely and on the most part it either gets deleted or bought on CD! Having all my music in a non-tangible format would be great. (Too many CDs)
Roll on April 2004!!
iPod mini is due April 2004 worldwide.
So it would seem sensible to me that Apple does something similar to last year (with iTMS launch and 3G iPods) and have a "Music Event" reiterating the international release of the iPod mini and perhaps the opening of some international music stores?
Personally I can't wait til it comes to Europe.
Sure I download illegally distributed music but very rarely and on the most part it either gets deleted or bought on CD! Having all my music in a non-tangible format would be great. (Too many CDs)
Roll on April 2004!!
