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New iTMS Localizations Tuesday?

Well, to me, at least so far as Canada is concerned, it seems possible. The november 26 rumor would now make sense and there's been a few new french-canadian songs on ITMS on the last few days but there's far from enough. Very few artists are there.

It makes sense since they've only recently signed all the agreements. It sucks... but I can live with a 1 month delay. I think.

No, scratch that. I can't!
 
pkis said:
yepp, same here - living in Switzerland. They've been saying the iTMS would be coming "very soon" for almost two years now - I'd be very disappointed if they wouldn't launch one for Switzerland tonight 🙁
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Switzerland IS coming, they have to get the pre-pay cards into the posts,retailers and kiosks first it seems since the population still pay the old way (ala via post office..lol)

Australia is NOT happening and they ran into some red tape there, I believe it is the same problem as Canada.
 
pkis said:
yepp, same here - living in Switzerland. They've been saying the iTMS would be coming "very soon" for almost two years now - I'd be very disappointed if they wouldn't launch one for Switzerland tonight 🙁
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If you go to the Apple Store for Switzerland and click on the iPod, it talks about the iTunes Music Store. It does not do this for Canada (for instance). It sounds like it'll be today as well for Switzerland (most likely).
 
So what about Norway! Don't we even deserve to be mentioned?

Well, it's probably fake anyway. Why should anyone inside of Apple bother posting such information to a rumorsite forum only a few hours before they go public anyway?

First post BTW 🙂
 
iAlan said:
I can't access the Music Store at all. I used to be able to search and listen to the previews, but nothing loads now. Also, I can't access the Apple Japan wed page or the Japan Apple Store on-line.

I hope this means what i think it means...
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It must have just been for a short while, because it's online now. The iTunes store in Japan has always used the word "yet", nothing new to report in Japan.

Brian
 
Bear said:
If you go to the Apple Store for Switzerland and click on the iPod, it talks about the iTunes Music Store. It does not do this for Canada (for instance). It sounds like it'll be today as well for Switzerland (most likely).
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Sorry, NO Switzerland today. Maybe all the people there should join the rest of the world and get with the times. Now had they been in the EU and the old people stopped whining about change then YEAH it would have been today.

Sorry my frustration is with you aswell.
 
OziMac said:
Not much decent local Australian content yet - Jet, The Vines etc being manufactured sell outs not counting.
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First of all The Vines and Jet are not actually manufactured, say, unlike half the american stuff which gets played here (Australia).

Aside from that, it's obvious from the list of countries experiencing this phenomenon that - yes - something is happening to the itunes music store. But, no, it's probably not happening in your country despite the flags and the change of words.

I think macrumours.com will realise that in 4 hours or so when U2 and Jobs take to the stage!
 
netromac said:
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Well, it's probably fake anyway. Why should anyone inside of Apple bother posting such information to a rumorsite forum only a few hours before they go public anyway?
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Good question. Possible answers are:
  1. So they can lose their job?
  2. So they can get all the attention (and lose their job)?
  3. Apple did it on purpose to generate more hype? (I doubt it.)
  4. It's all fabricated from the rumors and known facts and they just want the attention?
It could be any of the above or something I haven't thought of. We'll know in a few hours what is real anyway.
 
ItuningMan said:
Australia is NOT happening and they ran into some red tape there, I believe it is the same problem as Canada.
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Red tape? I know that there are already 2 or more music stores in Australia (Bigpond and NineMSN (ie. Australia's version of MSN) Music). These stores have been operating for sometime this year (and this is with the Australian laws stating that your not meant to copy anything (music, DVD's, Video's, TV shows etc.) (no backups allowed)).
 
For all those who haven't read the whole thread

To me this is some pretty clear evidence, and all those 'inside' information seems only to confirm it:

switch2mac said:
on the Dutch site macosx.nl I found another way to check whether or not you will get itms in the very near future:

go to your local apple site,
go to the online store,
go to the ipod.

Check if you get specifications that you can browse and download music from the itunes music story.

It seems that both in the Netherlands and in Belgium, the text has been adapted,
[...]
It says that "thanks to the integrated Itunes Music Story you can browse through hundreds of thousands of tracks and audiobooks until you have found exactly what you were looking for."
[...]
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This text is there in the Swiss, Italian, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Austrian, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgium and Japanese(!) store, but not in the Canadian and Australian one. It also not present in the Norvegian, Icelandic (Icelandian?), Greek, Czech and Polish store, but they have much less text anyway on that page, maybe they did not translate all of it. (Interestingly, the Finnish and Portuguese store is in English, although the main Apple web page is in Finnish/Portuguese.)
Luxemburg does not seem to have an Apple web page.

It looks like most if not all of the still iTMS-less EU-15 countries will get access (plus Switzerland and Japan). Sorry for Canada and Australia. Inconclusive on the new EU members like Poland and smaller Non-EU countries like Norway.
 
Bear said:
Good question. Possible answers are:
  1. So they can lose their job?
  2. So they can get all the attention (and lose their job)?
  3. Apple did it on purpose to generate more hype? (I doubt it.)
  4. It's all fabricated from the rumors and known facts and they just want the attention?
It could be any of the above or something I haven't thought of. We'll know in a few hours what is real anyway.
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Let ME take care of worrying about my job. Which rest assured I will not.

I give information. Be happy. Be skeptical. But do NOT be damning.
 
It's only 7:17 AM here in my part of Canada, so there's still a chance - I'll give it until the Music Event with U2 to see what is actually announced...
 
kjwebb said:
Red tape? I know that there are already 2 or more music stores in Australia (Bigpond and NineMSN (ie. Australia's version of MSN) Music). These stores have been operating for sometime this year (and this is with the Australian laws stating that your not meant to copy anything (music, DVD's, Video's, TV shows etc.) (no backups allowed)).
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Same here in Canada. There's a number of stores already operating...so there really is no reason anymore. I think Australia, just like Canada, will be part of the next wave. It's only a matter of time...
 
ItuningMan said:
Switzerland IS coming, they have to get the pre-pay cards into the posts,retailers and kiosks first it seems since the population still pay the old way (ala via post office..lol)
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well, slowly I'm starting to believe this guy - either he's been to Switzerland for a vacation, he IS from Switzerland or he's actually telling the truth (or everything together 😉. While we have a very high credit-card owner density in Switzerland (it's always been extremely easy even for minors to get credit cards here), he's right about the Kiosk thing: the Swiss love to buy pre-paid cards for phones etc. in Kiosks and Post Offices and it would make lots of sense for Apple to be selling iTunes gift certificates through post offices and kiosks here.
 
kjwebb said:
Red tape? I know that there are already 2 or more music stores in Australia (Bigpond and NineMSN (ie. Australia's version of MSN) Music). These stores have been operating for sometime this year (and this is with the Australian laws stating that your not meant to copy anything (music, DVD's, Video's, TV shows etc.) (no backups allowed)).
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With the physical objects (books/cds/dvds) and broadcasts, It's all copyrighted and such. With the download music stores, you're buying a specific license for the material. So there should be no problems with the local copyrighht laws in Australia.
 
~Shard~ said:
It's only 7:17 AM here in my part of Canada, so there's still a chance - I'll give it until the Music Event with U2 to see what is actually announced...
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Good idea. Nothing is real until Steve Jobs waves his magic wand anyway.
 
Also here in Australia, if it is happening the information shouldn't appear until late in the night (it is currently 11:20pm). Why do you think the information has appeared for other areas and not Australia (other than it may not be happening)? Is it because the rest of the world has had the information added in the middle of the night?
 
ItuningMan said:
Sorry, NO Switzerland today. Maybe all the people there should join the rest of the world and get with the times. Now had they been in the EU and the old people stopped whining about change then YEAH it would have been today.

Sorry my frustration is with you aswell.
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But for sure it cannot be too far away, why would they otherwise put that text on their webpage, which was not there a few days ago.
 
abc123 said:
it there going to be a webcast of this or anything?
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I don't believe any Apple music events have been webcasted before, so I'm thinking no. I don't even know if they are recorded then made available afterwards, as I've never seen one...
 
Bear said:
With the physical objects (books/cds/dvds) and broadcasts, It's all copyrighted and such. With the download music stores, you're buying a specific license for the material. So there should be no problems with the local copyrighht laws in Australia.
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True (just look at Apple's license system). It just depends on what APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) and the government decides (except Howard's back in so we may be seeing the US laws coming to Australia?)

At least we have at least one free, legal music download site (mp3.com.au).
 
~Shard~ said:
I don't believe any Apple music events have been webcasted before, so I'm thinking no. I don't even know if they are recorded then made available afterwards, as I've never seen one...
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i saw the last one. i don't remember if it was live, i think they put it up right after it finished...
do we have a 'mole' attending or anything?
 
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