“Apple Computer is planning the next wave of expansion for its popular iTunes online music store with a multi-country European launch in October, the service’s chief architect said on Wednesday. ‘We are well on pace to launch more EU stores. We will do it next month,’ Eddie Cue, Apple’s vice president of applications told music executives at the annual Popkomm conference in the German capital,” Bernhard Warner reports for Reuters. “In typical Apple style, the computer maker gave scant details of the hotly anticipated launch. He told reporters on the sidelines it would likely include more than five new countries in the next wave of stores. ‘It will cover a good portion of Western Europe,’ he said of the launch, but declined to elaborate.”
Full article here.
Warning.. there is ONE computer in Romania with the reqs to run iTunes.. Apple may be skipping over a few countries..
Well I for one would love to buy music through iTunes mega mall. I live in Iceland whitch is a part of Europe and for some reason Apple just keeps ignoring us. Please Apple give us the store allready!
snore…. I can’t figure why Canada is not getting an iTMS any time soon. Musicmatch has been here for over a year now.
Must be the politics.
all good things are worth the wait….
CDN guy…. I hear ya…. I dunno why you folks are being excluded….. the exchange rate doesnt take a genius to figure out…
Hello, Apple- Remember us? We live just north of the frickin’ border? We buy stuff too…
Proton…
Pls excuse my ignorance…. but, is it true Iceland is green…. and Greenland is covered in ice ??
Canada has a large amount of laws dealing with the music industry. Blank cd’s are charged a tax thats suppose to go to bands (although its never been clear how that works) and it doesn’t matter if you by the blank cd for data!
Anyway, with such a complicated tax scheme, copyright laws, etc, things take longer
Mr Bungle? Can it be?
Sweet!
Would you weenies in mega-socialist states with heavily captive bureaucracies stop complaining when your overwhelming red tape, featherbedding, and bureaucratic inertia slow things down? Jesus, you people voted for these governments–take it like men/women and shut up already.
Who cares if Canada doesn’t have it! I bet half the world doesn’t even know Canada exist!
hey OJ…
In your over exhuberant zeal to criticize… why not ask them how they feel about our foreign policy and our “go it alone” stratagy…
Who knows ??…. its possible that even you may gain some valuable insights
why do you drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway?
it must be noted here that Peter Butter got an “A” in geography….
(also in spelling his own name ! LOL )
Peter Butter doesn’t know Canada exists, because he’s always busy lubricating his Peter with butter. No time to notice anything but how much butter gets mixed in the batter.
You tell ’em, OJ! mac dood, you just don’t get it, do you? The opinions of our foreign policy are irrelevant; folks in other countries want something Apple is offering; their home countries make it hard to deliver. Regardless of everything else that may or may not be wrong with the U.S. [you “America-worst” folks just kill me], that is irrelevant to what is holding up the doing of business in someone else’s country. Now, if another country imposes red tape on, say, Apple or IBM, or GM or whoever because the prevailing bureaucracy doesn’t like America’s policies, well, welcome to the real world. That’s going to happen at one time or another to everybody, regardless of pilitical stripe.
canada is probably not on their top of the list because canada’s PtP is legal there….
So since I’m a Canadian Mac user, and no legal sources for downloads are available, is it okay if I use p2p software?
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Why must you force me to steal?
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Does anyone actually think that Apple willfully restricts its presence in other countries thus denying Apple money from music sales; and limiting advertising and future sales of other Apple products and services?
Gosh, Steve, if every nation was opened to iTMS Apple would would make too much money! Think how many more accountants we would have to hire and all that cash we would have to deal with. I don’t know if opening up more markets is a good idea.
The reason why people do not have iTMS has less to do with Apple than governmental laws and regulations. The bottle neck is not Apple, it�s your own governments that you voted into power.
Suicidal Gingerbread Man and other Northern Neighbors,
Surely there is access to your laws and statutes online that you could check. From what I gather, Canadians can use P2P networks and it isn’t ‘stealing’, but I could be wrong. Take some initiative and do some research on laws that matter to you, and if you don’t like the law, do something to effect change. Your government isn’t your mommy.
To all music thieves everywhere:
Why are thieves blaming Apple for their committing criminal activities?
How many of you criminals subscribe to relative morality?
How would you plead to the judge?
I hope that all you music thieves can excuse our president from invading Iraq since Saddam�s behavior �forced� GW into attacking, like Apple is forcing all you criminals into stealing music.
I like America’s “go it alone” attitude.
So- fuckoff.
Hehehe haw ho ha…
North Korea has nukes, Iran is going to have them soon. Iraq is heading towards a civil war – which is why the forecast is for 10 years of occupation. That’s 10 years of us footing the bill people. The world is less stable, and America is not safer. America’s “go it alone” strategy sure seems to be working, eh?
The American empire* doesn’t have uniform laws either, for example auto emission laws in California and advertising laws in Florida.
Red tape is good and bad, USA getting rid of enviromental regulations is not a good idea. The American legal system acts as a form of red tape too. How about $650,000 fine for 1.2 seconds view of a breast even though the nipple was covered!
The digital age has changed the rules, you can buy stuff easily from far away, this is really new and a big change. Laws and contracts have yet to respond to the change and it is quite right that new laws and contracts are not rushed in. IP regulations are a particular concern, the USA’s concepts of software patenting (eg Amazon’s one-click) and apparently indefinite copyright are not universally accepted even in America.
Yes it’s a shame we all can’t have everything now but look around and from wherever you stand there will always be some grass that is greener elsewhere.
It’s good that some change is slow, it gives more opportunity to get it right. Change that is too fast often results in more momentous mistakes and gross waste, remember the dot com boom and bust.
If Tim Berners-Lee had been american do you think the internet would have not been patented?
*I use the phrase ‘American Empire’ advisedly, it started on the east coast and has taken over most of the continent but has restricted itself from much overseas expansion. Just because it’s mainly restricted to one continent does not make it less of an empire. The continental empire was gained not so much by overt warfare as we usually associate with empire but by other means like mass migration in to low populated areas and deals with other nations (esp European colonial powers). That is not to underestimate the horrors of the ‘Indian Wars’ and the mass ethnic cleansing of near a whole continent.