Russell crows about iTunes Music Store Australia
The Australian actor-musician star of
Gladiator places an ad for iTMS on shock jock's broadcast this
morning.
Russell Crowe told Sydney broadcaster John Laws on
his radio show today that Apple's online music store will debut this Thursday,
more than a day before Tiger
launches.
We had indications back in January that Apple wanted to launch the site then, but last-minute hiccups with the local music industry killed that plan.
The report says that inexplicably the cost per track will be $A1.80, when everywhere else it is just under a unit of currency. Although this is in keeping with Apple Australia's far higher pricing than simple exchange rates would indicate. It looks like there is a secondary market opening in iTunes arbitrage.
We will be keeping a close watch over the www.apple.com.au/itunes/store/ URL, the most likely home for Apple's iTunes music site, which redirects to iLife at the moment.
This is the most reliable indication to date that iTMS will start this week; It seems Apple or someone connected with the company may have paid for this product placement if John Laws' history is a guide.
And it may be a coincidence, but after setting my system clock forward to April 28, OS X wanted to access Software Update only when later the iTunes software looked for a local store. This would seem to lend weight to the assertion that iTMS will start this week, even if it doesn't prove it. And it would dovetail with the rumoured iTunes 4.8 update.
We had indications back in January that Apple wanted to launch the site then, but last-minute hiccups with the local music industry killed that plan.
The report says that inexplicably the cost per track will be $A1.80, when everywhere else it is just under a unit of currency. Although this is in keeping with Apple Australia's far higher pricing than simple exchange rates would indicate. It looks like there is a secondary market opening in iTunes arbitrage.
We will be keeping a close watch over the www.apple.com.au/itunes/store/ URL, the most likely home for Apple's iTunes music site, which redirects to iLife at the moment.
This is the most reliable indication to date that iTMS will start this week; It seems Apple or someone connected with the company may have paid for this product placement if John Laws' history is a guide.
And it may be a coincidence, but after setting my system clock forward to April 28, OS X wanted to access Software Update only when later the iTunes software looked for a local store. This would seem to lend weight to the assertion that iTMS will start this week, even if it doesn't prove it. And it would dovetail with the rumoured iTunes 4.8 update.
Posted: Mon - April 25, 2005 at 02:18 PM
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