Surprise, surprise: iTMS sells for .99 EUR
by Volker Weber
iTMS opens localized stores for France, Germany and the UK. The rest of Europe is supposed to follow by October.
Apple is always good for a surprise. While the pundits predicted that iTMS would sell songs for 1.19 or 1.29 EUR a song, most likely for covering the high cost of transporting bits across the Atlantic, it now turns out that Apple will ask 0.99 EUR for a track and 9.99 EUR for an album. That is currently 20 % more than in the US but it already includes the VAT that would be 16% in Germany.
If they only started to do the same for hardware.
The UK prices are actually higher: 79 Pence which is about 1.20 EUR. Well, they did not want the Euro in the first place. :-)
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if they do it like http://www.heise.de/ct/50-cent/ that they are the Kings!
If I read this right all 3 Euro-stores offer unlimited CD burning of downloaded tunes. Is this a better deal than the US?
Max, same in the US. The limit is on the playlist. You can only burn the exact same playlist a number of times. Then you need to change the playlist.
Just for the sake of documentation:
has been completely unreachable for me (i.e. from a t-online DSL access in Göttingen) for a couple of minutes (02:50 to 02:55 pm CEST).
;) a good sign in terms of public/customer interest?!
oops, I meant, www.apple.com, has been unreachable... (got the url left out of my previous comment), sorry.
yep. hardware für 20% mehr als im us-store, inkl. MwSt, das wäre was.
nochmal zum Erreichbarkeitsproblem von apple.com:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48268
It’s all running much better now. Yes, 79p here in the UK. But no complaints from me: I was sure it would be higher than that.
Now, what to buy first?? This could be dangerous ;o)
It appears the "connection" problems were not limited to apple.com. This C|Net report states that Akamai may have been the target of a Denial of Service attack this morning.
http://news.com.com/Blackout+hits+major+Web+sites/2100-1038_3-5234500.html?tag=nefd.top
Just in time for the iTMS Europe launch!
don't know what you are complaining about, we don't have it at all :o( (Austria)
greetings
ursus
Who’s complaining? ;o)
Well, hopefully the roll-out will continue in Europe. I imagine the stumbling block for countries like Austria is getting local record company buy-in: that’s what held things up previously.
