iTunes Europe Goes Live

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @01:29AM from the you-submitted-this-too-didn't-you dept.

Spad writes "The Register is reporting the launch of iTunes in the UK, France and Germany. "iTunes will carry 700,000 songs from the five major record labels and independents, and prices for the download service start at 79 pence or 99 euro cents per song." It's not ideal (99c is about 55p) but it's better pricing than expected. I for one will be signing up to use it."

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Gggrrrrrrr!!!!! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2004-06-15 01:31 · Score: 3, Funny

What about the rest of us!!!

Must we wallow forever in the sinful pleasures of bearshare and kazaa?

Save us oh Jobby one!

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Windows 98 + iTunes by JaF893 · 2004-06-15 01:33 · Score: 2, Funny

What I want to know is when iTunes will be released for Windows 98? Something tells me its never going to happen but surely it wouldn't be that difficult for apple to release iTunes for win 98?
Re:Since this is an Apple product by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 01:33 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm a UK Mac user. I know of dozens.

So all of them, you're saying.
The release date will be... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 01:35 · Score: 1, Funny

when you upgrade to Win 2000+ :)
Bah... by MouseR · 2004-06-15 01:35 · Score: 5, Funny

...still not available for the 53rd state: Canada.
1. Re:Bah... by 955301 · 2004-06-15 02:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The 51st and 52nd states are Ignorance and Confusion, and they contain over half the population.
  
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2. Re:Bah... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 02:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  53rd? Are you counting Iraq and Afghanistan?
3. Re:Bah... by DLWormwood · 2004-06-15 02:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  the 53rd state
  Okay, I'll bite...
  Assuming that Puerto Rico is the 51st "State," what's 52nd?
  
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4. Re:Bah... by ctr2sprt · 2004-06-15 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  We number states chronologically; so the 28th State (Texas) is the 28th to join the Union. This is a bit of a problem for your argument, since Canada has clearly been a member of the Union longer than Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, it's probably older than Alaska and Hawaii (#48 is Arizona in 1912).
  So the order goes: Arizona, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Afghanistan, Iraq. Canada is the 49th State. Iraq is the 53rd.
  That's right. Not only did I take the time to reply to a troll, I did some research too.
5. Re:Bah... by BasilBrush · 2004-06-15 02:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Britain and Israel.
Re:UK pricing by proj_2501 · 2004-06-15 01:46 · Score: 2, Funny

as long as the UK doesn't become the head of the recipe department
Re:Exchange Rates by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 02:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, the British didn't want to join the Euro, because they wanted to be independent. So, now that you are, hope you are still happy with your independence!
Re:Language Issues by ugauaauag · 2004-06-15 04:08 · Score: 2, Funny

You should hear Americans sing "La Bamba" or "99 Luft Balloons"...
Re:Since this is an Apple product by jfengel · 2004-06-15 04:39 · Score: 2, Funny

The Mac may not break, but the users...

A friend of mine is a Mac repair technician. Mac people tend to be artsy types, and artsy types (unlike programmers) tend to smoke.

He posted a photo of a Mac motherboard owned by a smoker next to a picture of the anchor from the Titanic. Guess which had less accumulated grime.
Re:oh well by SlamMan · 2004-06-15 04:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Too bad some of us want music we've actually heard before.

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Re:Since this is an Apple product by HaroldBakker · 2004-06-15 04:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Seeing as Windows is more prone to bugs and viri this seems logical.
Hope everyone noticed.... by bullitB · 2004-06-15 05:01 · Score: 2, Funny

The US iTunes site says "The Best Digital Jukebox."
The UK site says "A digital jukebox beyond compare."

I think they got a bit of a fright from that "the PowerMac G5 is the world's fastest computer" debacle.
Re:Since this is an Apple product by Buran · 2004-06-15 07:34 · Score: 4, Funny

*cracks up*

I work at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also in the Cell Biology department. We have one Bio-Rad confocal. Windows-only software that is terrible, full of bugs, and crashes all the time. We have Windows-only analysis software which the developer simply refuses to port to the Mac despite Apple practically begging them to. It runs, but it requires a hardware dongle -- stupid buggy thing. We do have a camera which has Mac drivers... the drivers never seem to crash.

I have some hope as Bio-Rad sold their confocal business to Zeiss. Maybe Zeiss will put out a Mac version of that horrid software.

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