[Ti] Apple Music Store

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 09:39 +0100 29-4-2003, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 09:16  am, David Remahl wrote:
>>And it is disappointing that the music service is only available to 
>>the US of A...We Swedes and other Europeans want to buy some 
>>music > too!

I am sure there are 10X as many people outside of the USA who would 
buy the music as in the USA.
Especially users in Japan and Switzerland, which I understood to be 
the most Mac intensive countries outside of California.

>Apple have done a really good in 2003  job at keeping Europeans in 
>the loop. Let's hope that in a month or two (they might be piloting 
>the service at the moment) they expand it globally

I was puzzled as to what exactly is the limitation.
So I have now tried to buy a song through my ,Mac account.
The problem is that I do not have a USA billing address for my AMEX 
card, that is all.
So there is no obvious technical limitation, it is just a commercial one.
There should be ways around this, from the Apple side.  For example, 
I already have a USA delivery address registered with Amex so there 
is no problem normally for me to buy "things" in the USA with my 
Swiss AMEX.  So I cannot see any reason as to why I cannot buy 
something digitally.
No doubt all will be revealed.
But they are busy working on that OS 10.2.6 update the flipper let slip.....

Trevor