When are they ever going to wake up?!

The Irish Credit Cards are safe then

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When are they ever going to wake up?!

Hello,

I'm very surprised and disappointed that their was no announcement of an Irish Music Store today, every other country in the old Europe (as Rumsfeld
calls it) now have access to the store, except Ireland. Why?

Considering that Irish consumers spent between �‚110 and �‚130 million Euro on music albums and singles in 2003 alone, for a population of 4 million people that's a lot of revenue that Apple could tap into.

Also U2 were co-hosting the event I would have imagined that an Irish store would be launched too. Especially since Apple's European Manufacturing and Distribution Centre is based here in County Cork.

Well who only knows when Apple will get around to establishing an Irish, Japanese or Australian store, among many other countries that are still lacking a music store. Hopefully it will be sooner than later.

On the plus side the new iPod Photo looks very cool.

iTMS for Luxembourg which has a Population of 462,690

Yet there no iTMS in Ireland??? which has a Population of 4,002,558

Ireland has more Mac/Pc Users them Luxembourg has people...
let's hope they hurry up with a Irish version of iTMS…

...even though we do have credit cards and iPods in abundance....

I'll believe it when I see it but I was listening to Newstalk 106 ( a Dublin talk radio station) the other day and the guest (whose title I missed) was talking about how the industry is going after people who file share, and during the course of the discussion mentioned that he was happy to say that ITunes was coming to Ireland at the end of the month. I thought it was nice of him to make the announcement for Apple like that Strictly hearsay at this point.

Meanwhile, I've been using my Paris bank account to buy from the French store

Nice to have an iTMS in Belgium, but the site seems to be accessible in only two languages, English and French, whereas the large majority of Belgians are Dutch-speaking (approx. 59% as first language). Poor public relations, there, I'm afraid.

Oh, and Eddy Wally isn't available....

Actually, in November, according to Apple.

See the last sentence in the first paragraph.

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When are they ever going to wake up?!

Once again, Apple has left out one of the largest music buying markets (per capita) in the world - Australia (and New Zealand, for that matter).

You would think that Australia's 20 million odd population would contribute to Apple's profits in some way?? Obviously we are too small for them to even consider worthy of iTMS.

Get your act together Apple. Show us Australians and Kiwis that you are actually interested....

Don’t they realize that Apple can’t open a music store until it has music to sell ? Talk to your country’s RIA and bitch to THEM !!!!!!!!

I'm curious where the Microsoft store is available. And RealNetworks. Is it available everywhere?

Not intended to start a flamewar. I really don't know the answer. And if it is what I suspect, it sheds light on why Apple isn't everywhere yet.

jacrav, iTMS now has over 1 million songs to sell. Am i missing something??? Yes, yes, licensing issues, etc aside, what's the hold up?? Certainly not a lack of customers!

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iTMS for Luxembourg which has a Population of 462,690

Yet there no iTMS in Ireland??? which has a Population of 4,002,558

Ireland has more Mac/Pc Users them Luxembourg has people...
let's hope they hurry up with a Irish version of iTMS…

Seems like the Japanese iTMS will never open.
Even if Apple did, it would mean no CD burning, and the ability to listen only on one computer and iPod...

Reason: the Japanese record/media companies are extremely strict about copying things. I've heard that even free over-the-air television broadcasts have Copy Protection in them. Japan is a screwed country.

Well, we may have credit cards and iPods, but we have no euros!

If you look at any of the european urls for the itunes download (say, http://www.apple.com/ie/itunes/download/), and look at the botton left of the page, you'll see the following: "Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, <b>Ireland</b>, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK and the United States."
It's the same in every other european site but not on the US one.

Looks like they intended for Ireland to be included and there's some legal snafu that's holding it up - probably cos the music industry here doesn't want the 99c per song prices to completely undercut the wonderfully high prices they charge CDs for here...

Fingers crossed they'll solve it sooner than later...

Not only that, but if you have an Irish credit card and you live in a country which has the iTMS, you still can't use it. My billing address is in Austria, where I live, but my Irish credit card is useless.

I'm so depressed.