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Apple's 12 Days of Christmas iPhone app

As we reported last week, Apple is again rolling out their '12 Days of Christmas' promo for almost all of Europe. From December 26 to January 6 anyone with a iTunes account in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ireland can download a free song, music video, app, television show, or film from 'some of the biggest star performers' on iTunes.

To help you remember to download the daily giveaway, Apple has created a '12 Days of Christmas' iPhone app [UK iTunes link]. It uses push notifications to alert you when the new download is available and also allows you to connect to Facebook and recommend the download to your friends. So if you live in Europe, get downloading! The promo starts December 26th, but the app is available now!

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As we reported last week, Apple is again rolling out their '12 Days of Christmas' promo for almost all of Europe. From December 26 to...
 

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Richard

Oh and for the rest of the world you can always check out

http://www.12daysofchristmasapps.com/

January 03 2010 at 9:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pixelated

I posted this in the comments, in the App Store hope it helps some people here as well

Well Done Apple, you made a error in your own App, you have a localization error which is not allowing people like me, who are English, living in Germany to download the Super Free 12 Days of Christmas. If your iTunes store and your region Format are different you will experience problems, As I did, couldn't download, wondered what was wrong, and found the solution. Apple Genius, thats what I might be, I can only suggest using the following links, they do work from your iPhone

France: http://www.itunes12joursdecadeaux.fr/

United Kingdom: http://www.itunes12daysofchristmas.co.uk/

Germany: http://www.itunes12tagegeschenke.de/

You can send me the cheque for helping out no problem ;-) have a great New Year, to one and all

December 30 2009 at 2:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Richard

Just so you know each app/song/film/movie can be seen on the respective sites

http://www.itunes12giornidiregali.it/ (Italy)

http://www.itunes12daysofchristmas.eu/ (Ireland/Luxembourg/Sweden and others)

How to find use the link below; http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limited&host=www.itunes12

January 03 2010 at 9:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

Now 4th day, but can't download anything from France account, it say's not found !!! this now 4 time, in iTunes, same, Trivial Poursuit yesterday, not found or dos not exist !!!!
VERY BAD, that's all I can say...

December 29 2009 at 4:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HughJass

^How does one set up a UK iTunes account without a UK credit/debit card?

December 26 2009 at 4:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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lightgreenlightgreen

Go to UK iTunes, then go the the App Store. From there, find a free app, click it, then click Get App. The box will appear asking you to log in or create a new account. Create a new account, then go through filling in everything. Where it says payment options, it will say 'None'. Click that, then fill in the rest :D

December 27 2009 at 9:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
glad

It's a european only promotion which covers UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ireland,

So those of you in the americas north (Canada, USA, Mexico & Atlantis (!!)), central & south are not part of the promotion. Also excluded are Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific regions which includes japan, New Zealand and Australia!!!

Hopefully that will stop duufus in those countries saying they are not included

December 23 2009 at 1:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Justin

That is unless we set up a UK iTunes acct. I already have an Australian acct that I used to get Skype early.

December 23 2009 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Neil Long

I made the foolish mistake of letting it set Notifications "On" and the battery ran down to zero overnight. 3.1.2 still has that drain problem which notifications makes worse.

December 23 2009 at 12:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josesk

Sigh... Mexican iTunes Store is not on the list... No movies or TV shows available for rent or purchase, by the way, after four months of opening our iTunes Store!

December 23 2009 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JKT

Does this strike anyone else as strange? The holiday tunes won't be available until after X-mas AND a special app is needed to alert you when that might be?!? I don't at all mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is a bit of a fail. What's the root cause of the delay....licensing?

December 23 2009 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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freemdoom

It doesn't say these are holiday tunes, nor does it say the app is required. As for the delay, the 12 days of Christmas starts on December 25 as far as I remember.

December 23 2009 at 1:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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