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European iTMS Expansion Coming In October

by , 3:30 PM EDT, September 29th, 2004

An Apple exec has told Reuters that the company will be expanding its European iTunes Music Store in October. Vice president Eddie Cue told the news service that Apple is on pace to cover "a good portion" of Western Europe, whereas Apple is currently operating its music store only in France, Germany, and the UK, as well as the US. From Reuters:

"We are well on pace to launch more EU stores. We will do it next month," Eddie Cue, Apple's vice president of applications told music executives at the annual Popkomm conference in the German capital on Wednesday.

In typical Apple style, the computer maker gave scant details of the hotly anticipated launch. He told reporters on the sidelines it would likely include more than five new countries in the next wave of stores.

"It will cover a good portion of Western Europe," he said of the launch, but declined to elaborate.

There is additional information in the full article, including news of a 6-month wait at some BMW dealerships for that auto maker's iPod adapter, and other related info.

The Mac Observer Spin:

Apple's music machine keeps rolling, and is making steady progress. Considering the obstacles to uniform pricing across the patchwork of countries that comprise the European Union, a prerequisite for Apple, the company has actually done quite well in rolling out its European iTMS.

For those keeping score at home, those obstacles include a plethora of different and sometimes conflicting copyright laws, as well as a host of different agencies whose job it is to regulate those copyrights, and manage royalties generated from copyrights.

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Close Name:fartheststar Posts: 222 Joined: 04 Jan 2004
Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:51 pm Subject: CANADA

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Close Name:Guest
Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:31 pm Subject: Canada?

I don't think anyone has mentioned this...but what about Canada?


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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1960 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:38 pm Subject:

What's this Kahn-na-Da I keep hearing about? Some sort of new computer language? An OS? I asked Steve Jobs once and he told me it was some kind of USB device...but I could tell he wasn't sure either.


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Close Name:AFCdtLoeb Posts: 2533 Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:40 pm Subject:

Sometimes, when I'm home in Seattle, I hear people with funny accents and mad up words say they're from Can-ah-dah. I ask where that is, and they just point north... But thats where Everett is?!


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Close Name:Planeten Paultje Posts: 71 Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:16 pm Subject: Indeed, Canada

If things remain on track The Netherlands may have the ITMS before Canada gets it.


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:23 pm Subject:

--nada--nada edc.


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Close Name:DawnTreader -   TMO Staff Posts: 15039 Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:05 pm Subject:

Back on topic

This is good news for Apple and good news for music fans in Europe. I suspect the Christmas season will help to further establish iTMS and the iPod as the world's leading digital music solution.


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Close Name:deasys Posts: 296 Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:58 pm Subject: Canada, eh?

It would be nice if Apple would 'fess up and let us know what the delay is in getting the iTMS working in The Great White North.

Apple?


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Close Name:macnut Posts: 52 Joined: 28 Jul 2004
Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:49 am Subject: At the same time???

Maybe Canada will be made available at the same time as this Euro announcement.

We can only cross our fingers.

BTW: What about Japan??


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:26 am Subject: Canada and Japan

Perhaps Canada is not a priority since p2p music downloading is not illegal.

For those of you waiting for the launch in Japan...check out this article.

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=642


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:06 pm Subject: This is just insane

I sent an e-mail last year to Apple asking when iTMS would be available in Canada, and was told "early in the first quarter of 2004". Still, we in Canada are left without an iTMS. It's absolutely ridiculous. Some may very well say, "Well Canada has different copyrighting laws, which makes it very difficult to bring a Canadian version of iTMS", and to that I say, "And the European Union doesn't?" As the article suggests, a European iTMS is fraught with countless problems that are far greater than a Canadian iTMS.

Wake up Apple. There are other people living in this world other than in the US or Europe.


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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1960 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:10 pm Subject: Re: This is just insane

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Wake up Apple. There are other people living in this world other than in the US or Europe.


I know nothing about why iTunes isn't in Canada, but here's a little logic.

iTunes sales = minor profit from songs = large profit from more iPod sales

Can you give me ONE good reason why Apple would not want to make money from Canadians? Because I can't think of one.

Clearly, whatever's holding them up are factors outside of Apple's control, just like in Japan.

But maybe I'm wrong. Can you point me to some evidence that Apple is avoiding profit for their own amusement?


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:20 pm Subject: Re: This is just insane

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Small White Car wrote:
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Wake up Apple. There are other people living in this world other than in the US or Europe.


I know nothing about why iTunes isn't in Canada, but here's a little logic.

iTunes sales = minor profit from songs = large profit from more iPod sales

Can you give me ONE good reason why Apple would not want to make money from Canadians? Because I can't think of one.

Clearly, whatever's holding them up are factors outside of Apple's control, just like in Japan.

But maybe I'm wrong. Can you point me to some evidence that Apple is avoiding profit for their own amusement?


I don't think it's Apple doesn't want to make money off Canadians, because they've been clearly doing that with iPod, and just about every Apple product. It's rather what they're focusing on; maybe a Euro iTMS would be more high-profile in the newspapers because people said that it would never happen, given the complexity of Euro copyright laws. Apple's iTMS has invested all of its resources in trying to make this happen, and are actually expanding in Europe, when all of us in Canada (and the same goes for people in Japan and Australia, among many other countries) are left high and dry.


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:41 pm Subject: Blaming Apple

You Canadians are barkingup the wrong tree. Its NOT Apples fault...it the fault of those people in Canada who make the rules and regulations that govern the use of the internet for commerce. Scream at them...not Apple!


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Close Name:AFCdtLoeb Posts: 2533 Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:42 pm Subject:

Guest, can you explain what you mean by that?


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