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iTunes Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway
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J-Squire said:
Yeah, that's fine and good for you - but personally, I'd much rather have the physical item with the case, cover, artwork and booklet too.
An album (well, ones made by artists that care) is still a work of art - downloading DRM'd tracks will never replace that.
And for the record, it's closer to $17, assuming 10 tracks per album. More realistically, you're looking at between $20-25 - which is okay compared to new releases that sell for between $25-30 (and even then, you don't get the physical item and its corresponding artwork), but not so good for older stuff that would seel for between $10-$20 from a record store.
I too thought that the Australian/NZ iTMS might be combined into one, but to put them under one flag is too ridiculous. Imagine if the US and Canada had one store called United States and Canada (for example), and they just had the US flag as the icon? That seems pretty insulting - nothing to do with nationalism, it's just plain wrong.Nermal said:
zen said:
And exchange rates - though I'd much rather pay NZD$1.69 than AUD$1.69.
Our prices are about the same as the European stores - slightly more than continental Europe and about the same as the UK. And a total joke when compared to the Canadian price, which is about AUD$1.02!
OziMac said:Yeah, that's fine and good for you - but personally, I'd much rather have the physical item with the case, cover, artwork and booklet too.
An album (well, ones made by artists that care) is still a work of art - downloading DRM'd tracks will never replace that.
And for the record, it's closer to $17, assuming 10 tracks per album. More realistically, you're looking at between $20-25 - which is okay compared to new releases that sell for between $25-30 (and even then, you don't get the physical item and its corresponding artwork), but not so good for older stuff that would seel for between $10-$20 from a record store.
Full albums are not priced by the number of songs on the album. You can get a 16 track album on the US store for 9.99. Albums are typically the per track rate times 10, but are not based on number of tracks, unless that number is less than 10, or greater than 16. Most albums have 10-15 tracks. So $16.99 is what we will be paying for MOST albums.
edit: I just read my post. It sounds bloody confusing.
On the US store (and european, and canadian):
1 Song: 99c
4 song EP: 3.96
10 song album: 9.99
12 song album: 9.99
14 song album: 9.99
18 song album: >9.99
ChrisH3677 said:
And you have been credited by the Age as possibly the first purchaser from iTunes Australia:
http://blogs.theage.com.au/barkersbyte/archives/2005/04/itunes_is_here.html
Well done chris.
I will take solice in the knowledge that I was "one of the first" account holders.
J-Squire said:
Cool, if that's the way it is for the Australian store then I get your point about price - but my point about value still stands
Also - heaps of songs / artists can now be downloaded from the 'Australian store' for $1.69, and yes, albums are indeed $16.99... looks like the back end is starting to ramp up big, awaiting the unveiling of the front end very soon...
Zaty said:Seems some artists are not worth CHF 1.50
well, in this particular case I clearly have to agree with Apple
solaris said:I agreed to the simular "iTMS Terms and Conditions" earlier today.
I even read through the who line before I clicked "Agree"! Nice...
That's what I'm worrying about right now (and which keeps me from already buying stuff in the store) - it's technically illegal (at least in Switzerland) to use the store without having agreed to the terms and conditions. I really don't want to be kicked by Apple because of that.
Zaty said:Although I wanted to wait for the official launch, I couldn't resist and cashed in my free song
To my fellow Swiss MR members: Don't you think it must be a tragic day for mycokemusic.ch, directmedia.ch and the like as the Swiss iTMS probably had more visitors today
Well, it's going to be even more tragic to see that the iTMS will be selling more songs in a week than they have sold in a year...
If they don't QUICKLY match their prices and (above all) losen their DRM restrictions, I'm predicting that most (if not all) of the existing Windows-only Swiss music stores will go belly up within the next couple of years.
adam1185 said:
yeah - the prices in the Swiss store are a lot lower as well (99 Rappen for songs by unpopular artists, 1.50 for popular songs and 10 Francs for whole albums). The Swiss Franc's worth almost the same as the Candian $
OziMac said:Didn't you agree to those terms by clicking 'Agree' when you signed up?
I only agreed to the word "missing"
CHF 15 not 10 for an album/No songs for less than 1.50!
It would have been too good to be true, an entire album now cots CHF 15, they must have changed prices overnight.
Edit:
Interestingly, most albums that were available yesterday, are not available anymore. At this time, you can only buy a few complete albums. I only hope it's not going to stay that way. But then, they're still in the process of adding songs to the store.
pkis said:
It would have been too good to be true, an entire album now cots CHF 15, they must have changed prices overnight.
Edit:
Interestingly, most albums that were available yesterday, are not available anymore. At this time, you can only buy a few complete albums. I only hope it's not going to stay that way. But then, they're still in the process of adding songs to the store.
Zaty said:It would have been too good to be true, an entire album now cots CHF 15, they must have changed prices overnight.
Edit:
Interestingly, must albums, that were available yesterday, are not available anymore. At this time, you can only buy a few complete albums. I only hope it's not going to stay that way. They're still in the process of adding songs to the store.
nooooooooooooooo
Well, 15.- is the same as everywhere else, but still, that really sucks now that they had initally had a price tag of 10 per album.I have the feeling that so far we haven't seen the local stores yet - perhaps they just used the US store in combination with local currencies for testing purposes. I don't want to spoil anything here - but slowly I'm starting to doubt that the store (at least the Swiss store, which looks somewhat empty now) will be ready by tomorrow. It took Apple several weeks to get the stores ready for the last enlargement, it would surprise me if it only took them 3 days to get the new ones up and running. We have absolutely no proof that the stores will actually go online tomorrow. For what I know, it could be another month before everything's ready. We also don't know how much in advance the flags were online last time - maybe they had been there for half a year and nobody noticed.
The statement by Apple Switzerland that the article on music.ch gave them a "belly ache" didn't sound to me like they were planning on launching this week. I had the feeling that they had only just started to prepare for a launch and because of the article they tried to rush things in order to get everything done by tomorrow because they didn't want to disappoint the customers again.
If there's no launch tomorrow, at least I hope they'll issue a statement about the actual launch date.
Update to news story:
Blogger Garry Barker reports that the first track has been purchased from the Australian iTunes Music Store.
See post by ChrisH3677 and post above by J-Squire.
OziMac said:It seems they've shut down the gateway we had to purchase songs on the Australian store - now when you try to purchase a song, you get 'error 5002'. Oh well, not long to go at least
I am suprised it took this long
OziMac said:Yeah, fair enough, they need to lock it down for now (should have been locked down to begin with!). Here's hoping that the remaining credit on my account survives
yeah, but the big question will be whether they'll unlock those accounts again once the store is online
bcsmith said:
Also the swiss flag looks a bit strange. Usually the bars of the cross are wider. The cross in this flag looks more like in the symbol of the 'swiss' airline.