Comments on: Apple is clueless about international people

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:17:04 +0000

you can open an iTunes account with out a credit card – follow the interactions on my blog post about open in a US iTunes account. L

By: Tony J

Tony J — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:04:45 +0000

Hi, I’m an old fart who doesn’t trust Corporations and am bloody annoyed that I can’t join iTunes without giving them my credit card details. Due to a world of very capable hackers (SONY got hit!) means I will make the decision when I give my credit card details. “Arrogant Apple” say no…. unless you put you CC details in yo’ don’t count. From where in Apple do I get some redress? – Tony J

By: mary

mary — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:27:58 +0000

don’t dismay about itunes! you can have multiple itunes accounts for different countries and download from the US store from anywhere with gift cards. instructions here: http://usitunes.blogspot.com

By: Miki

Miki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:42:00 +0000

I think you’ll find the iTunes issue is not an apple issue. You just cannot buy global music rights – the music companies fragment them for this reason (maximising profit)

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:49:36 +0000

thanks for the comments everyone Jacques - that video is as funny as hell. Don - while I agree that Apple wants to lock me in, and in fact they pretty much have, it's through delivering sexy products. If Apple really wanted to lock me in properly then they'd fix the problems above. Besides, Apple are going to zap zap me by accident. Jon - yup I'm going to ave to do as you ave one with your DVD's. Right now the soutions it seems has been to simply not really watch, or even buy, DVDs. びっくり - oh MS is the clulessier for sure. No argument after the Vista debacle. Steven - it seems from the thread linked at the end of above that you can hack some of the macbook drives, and that everyone is just waiting for a firmware update to be posted for the later drives so that it can be hacked as well. Titus - yup it sure looks grim even if you buy from AT&T and roam into Canada. Brenda - yes, but if you are in a wifi zone you may well have your laptop with you anyway, especially in less developed countries like NZ and australia..

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iPhone news: CDMA, Canada, and Corporations « A Life Untold — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:45:57 +0000

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By: titusferguson

titusferguson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:34:28 +0000

I love your analysis of Apple and other countries. I’m up in Canada and since we’re so close to the United States, you’d expect we’d have similar services and release dates. Yet for whatever reasons (copyright, company agreements, etc) we are often delayed, often indefinitely (iPhone).

By: Steven Oliver

Steven Oliver — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:23:56 +0000

Can you buy a laptop with a DVD player that isn’t locked as you describe?

By: Jacques René Zammit

Jacques René Zammit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:33:00 +0000

100% in agreement. I really understand the iTunes store issue since I live in Luxembourg and witness first hand the iTunes store question in Lux (for hilarious “abuse” of the Lux iTunes system check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO7005zovao ).

Luxembourg is quite peculiar vis-a-vis other places in Europe since large net companies tend to “need” a base for tax purposes in Lux. So Luxembourg ends up having it’s own “regional” or “national” dedicated site much earlier than other countries… simply for tax reasons. I guess it is only once they realise that you can get into a Lux top ten chart by selling 10 songs that the ridiculousness of the situation becomes evident.

It’s not just Apple (with iTunes Luxembourg) but also Skype and Amazon (although no amazon.lu site available yet).

By: びっくり

びっくり — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:31:07 +0000

While you might be correct, I have found MS to be clueless as well, so they aren’t losing out to someone. I wonder who is cluelessier. (I wonder if I can get folks to use my new word…)