Digital Technology for Digital Living.
May 08, 2005
iTunes Music Store: last-minute delay
According to a music-source who spoke to the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Australian iTunes Music Store delayed opening at the last minute after a breakdown in negotiations with a major record label:
A source said yesterday Apple had planned to launch an Australian version of its popular online music store last Thursday [April 28], as widely touted, but the launch was thwarted by one unnamed major record company that refused to sign an agreement in time.
The hurdle reportedly forced Apple to cancel radio advertisements ordered for the date, and it is expected to delay iTunes’s launch by days, or possibly weeks, as song and album prices and payments are negotiated with the holdout label.
The Courier-Mail: iTunes hits the pause button
We wait a bit longer.
Graeme | Comments (2) | Musicgadgets,gadget,gadgets shop, latest gadgets, new gadgets
I notice this morning that the country flag button layout in the “Choose Store” section of the Music Store in iTunes has been shuffled around to allow space for two more countries… Waiting waiting waiting…
big
well it just goes to show you how greedy record companies can be! don’t they realise that they will probably make more money, the prices of cd’s in australia is just absolute bullshit, if they were cheaper there would be more people buying them! Sorry to state the obvious, but i guess the record companies haven’t cottoned on yet, who have they got working for them… monkies?!