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Poff said:
One sad thing is that we don't get a free weekly song like they do in the US.. :(
You may eventually. They didn't add free tunes in the U.K. until a while after the store opened there, but they did eventually. The same in Canada.
 
Aw Man! ;)

I got all excited about a free song for every swiss citizen, but the fine print says that the free songs only are for those actually residing in Swtizerland! haha....i'm soooo greedy :p
 
imz said:
I wonder if Macs would function in the South Pole during the winter seasons, when it goes down to -60C...(without any heating)
Guess they don't need Liquid Cooling for a Big Mac supercluster, just keep one wall open to the Antarctic wind, and keep a snow shovel handy...
 
gekko513 said:
...I want to buy "Schnappi das kleine Krokodill", but it isn't available in the norwegian store. Is there any way to submit song requests to the stores?
I read somewhere that Schnappi's success was due to its initial proliferation on p2p networks ;)
 
manu chao said:
I already have a 'German' Apple ID, which allowed me to shop in the German iTMS and also order prints from iPhoto, a service which does not exist in Switzerland.

I know it's OT, but iPhoto photo printing has been available in Switzerland since the very same as in Germany!
 
jobberwacky said:
And, there's 7.6% VAT included in the CH price, so it's not really a total rip-off*:

Given that 1.5 CHF is about 0.97 EUR, it's a good deal only for Apple and the music labels, as they are making an additional income of about 7% over the European base price.
 
cube said:
Given that 1.5 CHF is about 0.97 EUR, it's a good deal only for Apple and the music labels, as they are making an additional income of about 7% over the European base price.

Apple is making 6% more money in Luxembourg than in Finland, 11% more money in Switzerland than in Luxembourg but only 5% more than in Finland.

The consumer, however, is paying 2% less in Switzerland than in the Euro countries.

I'd say, get over it, these are fairly small differences.

Swiss price: CHF 1.50 = EUR 0.97
Swiss VAT (7.6%): CHF 0.11 = EUR 0.07
Apple's revenue in Switzerland: CHF 1.39 = EUR 0.90

Luxembourgish (?) price: EUR 0.99
Luxembourg's VAT (15%): EUR 0.13
Apple's revenue in Luxembourg: EUR 0.86

German price: EUR 0.99
German VAT (16%): EUR 0.14
Apple's revenue in Germany: EUR 0.85

French price: EUR 0.99
French VAT (19.6%): EUR 0.16
Apple's revenue in France: EUR 0.83

Finnish price: EUR 0.99
Finnisch VAT (22%): EUR 0.18
Apple's revenue in Finland: EUR 0.81
 
Microsoft sells songs from 1.20 to 1.50 CHF each. Not that that is anything near a good price.
 
I bought my first songs (and a whole album) yesterday.... but I must say - I'm wuite a bit dissapointed with the variety. Yeah I know, Denmark might be the smallest place of all, but hell... the main reason I was looking forward to this was the possibilty to get music that's hard to come by here, but basically they just have the same stuff as in any regular music store :(

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welcome to itunes enjoy it mates!!! :cool:

be sure to check out the gorillaz free album sampler this week ! :D
 
pkis said:
yeah, which you can download to a player 3 times, burn 3 times and only play on a single computer...

According to the BBC, this is not the case.
 
mcadam said:
I bought my first songs (and a whole album) yesterday.... but I must say - I'm wuite a bit dissapointed with the variety. Yeah I know, Denmark might be the smallest place of all, but hell... the main reason I was looking forward to this was the possibilty to get music that's hard to come by here, but basically they just have the same stuff as in any regular music store :(

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I can feel with you, but one would be hard pressed to find store that has 100 000 CDs...
 
fraggle said:
I currently have three account (US, DE, CH) without any problems... My US account was created with a gift certificate, the others with credit cards. No problem so far! (219 songs and counting.)

Wait...does that mean if someone from say the UK sent me a gift certificate, I'd be able to access UK songs (at least for the amount of the certificate)? I'm sure this has been asked before, but somehow I've never come across a definitive answer. If so, that'd be excellent. :)

Lara, who's happy to have both a US and Canadian account but would like to access Europe too...
 
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