“While Apple will not comment, rumours the company will finally bring its popular iTunes Music Store to Australia are stronger than ever,” Jennifer Dudley reports for The Courier-Mail. “Actor and sometime-musician Russell Crowe gave the strongest indication the music store would be launched here before the end of the month, telling John Laws’s radio show listeners the website would host his latest solo music efforts.”
“He said the local iTunes Music Store would become available on April 28, just a day before the launch of Apple’s new operating system Tiger X, and would feature the first of his post-30 Odd Foot of Grunt songs,” Dudley reports. “He said iTunes songs would cost $1.80 (AUS) a track – pricier than the US99¢ a track offered in the US.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This story has had more than its fair share of false reports, so we’ll believe it when we see it.
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