iTunes Europe Rollout May Be Delayed

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/19/apple_itunes_euro/' target='_blank'>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/19/apple_itunes_euro/</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/itunes.jpg" />Bad news for Europeans waiting for Apple to rollout iTune Music Store there. Delays are possible, but the music service is coming. <br /><br />"Apple is still on course to launch its iTunes Music Store in Europe, but right now it just can't say when. Indeed, expect delays, we are warned, by none other than Apple Europe chief Pascal Cagni. "This [launch] is going to be so important for the future that a few months' delay is not essential," he told Reuters last week."<br /><br />This really isn't big news, but I thought I would give our Europe based readers a heads up. :wink:

[Filip Norrgard]

[some tracks for iTunes are] then only for sale in the UK and Ireland, not the whole of Europe
WTF? :evil: Practically everything on Amazon.co.uk (excluding books) is UK and Ireland only, and now iTunes have to "join in on this"?
I know that UK and Ireland are an distance from mainland Europe, but that shouldn't mean their internet services should be that limited... :P

That's just ridiculous! :roll:

[James Fee]

Looks like Napster is having trouble with their store in Euope too...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4878471

[Jonathon Watkins]

Just as long as when it does go online - we don't get the usual $ to £ conversion...... :roll: