Comments on: Why does Apple penalise it’s European iTunes customers?

By: moira

moira — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:57:21 +0000

I’m actually just the opposite of you guys I live in the U.S. and am upset that I can’t get a europe account. i’m takeing french in school and my teacher intoduced me to a really good french song and I was looking it up on itunes and it’s only avalble on the europe one so I can’t buy it. And the worst part is that on my itunes i can buy a kareoke version and download french podcasts that have the singer in them!

By: Jay Oatway

Jay Oatway — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:08:50 +0000

At least you have some content on iTunes.

Here in Hong Kong, iTunes has finally arrived (along with the 3G iPhone), but you can’t buy music or movies — just apps.

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:38:45 +0000

Take a look at this Pat

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-eu-finally-cuts-through-licensing-red-tape-for-digital-music.html

keith

By: ultan

ultan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:02:37 +0000

By: AJ McKee » Blog Archive » So much for a global company. How Apple & Others treat Europeans

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:55:29 +0000

[...] Pat Phelan’s blog yesterday about Apple and how it restricts the rest of the world as to what it can purchase through iTunes got me thinking. I’ve long known that Apple deploy [...]

By: Declan

Declan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:22:47 +0000

@ Ken McGuire – Apple are blaming the developers by saying developers specify which regions apps are made available in and must not have selected Ireland, but I contacted one games developer who told me his game had been made available to the whole world so it should have been on the Ireland list. It wasnt.

Apple are blaming the developers and the develoepers are blaming Apple so until someone actually looks into the problem instead of blaming someone else we wont see any games or the full list of applications.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:06:33 +0000

Yes, us Canadians are forced into a 3yr contract if we want the iPhone.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:58:44 +0000

I would be more concerned about limitations about dragging and dropping onto and off of my iPhone than whether I can get an App for the phone. There are plenty of online options for music if you don’t have to worry about the iTunes sync.

One of the most tedious things I do is back up cracked DRM tracks purchased on iTunes. I won’t permit a single-system playback track to suck away my purchasing power,

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:57:46 +0000

One of the most tedious things I do is back up cracked DRM tracks purchased on iTunes. I won’t permit a single-system playback track to suck away my purchasing power,

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:33:56 +0000

1. There are UK movie rentals on iTunes. Negotiating rights for the EU market is an extremely complex business though.

2. The app developers themselves state which iTunes markets they want their app to be available in. It is *not* an Apple decision. When submitting your app you are presented a list of all available regions and you simply check which ones you want to be in.