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iTunes Music Store is live in Australia
That's right, Aussies, the wait is finally over. Pigs are flying, hell is frozen and the iTunes Music Store is available in Australia. We thought the rumor was too good to be true when we first heard the rumblings surrounding this week's Australian Media Briefing, which was attended by the
worldwide head of the iTunes Music Store as well as the head of iPod
Marketing. Looks like they flew down for more than a vacation after all.To our Australian friends: We're glad your wait is over (just don't be too boastful around your neighbors from New Zealand, OK?).
Thanks, Jason!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Guillermo said 8:39PM on 10-24-2005
Dear Apple,
Please, PLEASE, don't forget we exist, too.
Signed,
Latin America
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Neil Houghton said 8:53PM on 10-24-2005
Arrrgh, no New Zealand store? I even tried tricking it into thinking NZ was a state of Australia -- no luck!
:(
Hurry up Apple!
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God Jobs said 9:26PM on 10-24-2005
Cool, but what about BRAZIL?
GOD JOBS
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Dunk said 9:30PM on 10-24-2005
I can confirm the store is live and working here in Sunny Sydney.
Was a little confused at first - the country drop-down had defaulted to Austria and I was wondering why everything was in German...
No Tv downloads unfortunately (so no new episoded of "Lost" for us), although the music videos and Pixar stuff is there. The store seems a little "light" for downloadable content.
Oh yes - $1.69aus for a song, $3.39aud for a music video - ouch that's a nasty conversion rate...
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New Zealander said 12:56AM on 10-25-2005
Interesting to see a NZ band on there though...
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Sydneysider said 5:33AM on 10-25-2005
Hurrah! Yep, it's here, working and looking good. Finally, 10 months after buying an ipod I can use itunes to buy some music. It has been commented that it's pricy, but it's still a bit cheaper (and a lot more convenient) than going out and buying the CD.
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Cyberwhore said 7:20AM on 10-25-2005
Sony BMG have still held out on signing up with Apple for the Oz iTunes store.
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Dylan Withers said 7:41AM on 10-25-2005
I have a good write up on my site about the subject, with a few interesting points.
http://360countdown.com/thoughts.html
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Steven Bates said 10:17PM on 10-26-2005
Oh man i feel like tossing my ipod in the bin,no itunes for NZ how hard can it have been to include us,i'm sure most record companies here are probably told what to do by there Oz counterparts anyway,well i'll have to continue with allofmp3.com
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