[Ti] I won't sign the petition [was: Canadians need not apply!]

[b]

Victor Eijkhout paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>
>>we sit here and watch as Apple does as it sees fit
>
>Bull. They do the best they can. Should they have waited another 
>year with rolling out the service, so that they could do it world 
>wide? By that time they may have been scooped, or someting else may 
>have changed.
>
>Steve Jobs said that they were working on making this accessible to 
>people without a credit card from the US. I'm taking his word for 
>that. They are working on it. You'll get the service as soon as they 
>straighten out the legalities.
>--

Exactly. Chances are that any bottleneck, re: worldwide availability, 
lies with Visa/Mastercard, and, perhaps less so, local taxation rules 
[an enormous bookkeeping headache].

~flipper