[Ti] Canadian Apple Music Store Clone coming [OT]

[Neil Cadsawan]

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 01:22  PM, John Griffin wrote:

> Apparently a company in Toronto is aware that Canadian Mac users are 
> pretty
> frustrated with Apple's decision to shut us out from purchasing and
> downloading music. Very soon we will have our own service called 
> PureTracks
> and we will be able to download selections for less that 1$ 
> (Canadian). This
> was just announced yesterday.
>
> Yeah, baby!
>
> I guess this means there will be no reason to use iTunes Music store 
> when it
> is open to Canadians.
>
> jg

I guess that would be true if PureTracks can offer a similar or better 
selection of music.  Signing deals with labels is not an easy thing to 
do.  Yeah, you can get all the independents to sign on, but they don't 
have the big acts that most people want.


-Neil