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Apple Store now selling iTunes Gift Certificates

Posted by pudge on from the that-is-a-whole-lotta-music dept.

indigo12 writes "Now you can send iTunes store gift certificates up to $200 from the Apple Store. Just in time for the holidays."

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  1. Be careful with these by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You might think it's a useful incentive, but not only does a gift certificate of $200 not get you a full $200 of songs, but the remainder IS NOT REDEEMABLE FOR CASH. Dodgy marketing stunt on the part of Apple.

  2. Won't do me much good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It won't do me much good to get one of those gift certificates. I don't like to listen to music at my computer, and iTunes can't burn songs to CD.

    Ok, theoretically iTunes could burn them to CD, in "Jaguar," but I made the mistake of upgrading to OS X 10.3 "Panther," and now my CD-R drive no longer works. And Apple is apparently preventing me from manually hacking in support (it's a fully supported drive, aside from the fact that it returns a vendor ID that hasn't been hardcoded by Apple in to the DiscRecording Framework). Fortunately I don't need high performance graphics for iTunes, since Panther also disabled my video card. I'm also pleased that iTunes doesn't waste too much screen real estate because my third party monitor has lost many of its resolutions.

    Oh well, at least I don't keep my music on external FireWire hard drive [sigh]...

    1. Re:Won't do me much good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      It's not just you. Panther removed support for burning DRM enabled AAC files to CD as audio discs.

      Bait and switch. sound familiar?