Canada. United States. Two countries. One iTMS.

September 19, 2007 @ 8:59 am · Filed under Apple, iPod/iTunes, Music

Kill to Get Crimson by Mark Knopfler is available today on iTunes. I know this because Apple sends me email messages letting me know what’s new on iTunes. But they’re just taunting me. It’s not in iTunes’ Canadian store.

Apple knows I’m Canadian. They have my shipping address, my billing address, my ip address and, in all probability, fairly recent DNA samples.

They’re even able to send me “artist alerts”, notifying me that one of my favourite performers has released something new. Which I love.

The iTunes Store is aware of what it can sell to Americans, what it can sell to Canadians, and what it can sell to Britons (including, as of yesterday, iPhones, but I digress). But tailoring the store’s weekly announcements to the subscribers’ countries of origin is just too hard.

So they taunt us. As with the iPhone and the availability of TV shows and movies in iTunes. I wonder if Edward Burns’ new feature (link via DaringFireball.net) will be available in Canada? I’m guessing ‘no’.

4 Comments »

  1. Harold Jarche Said,

    January 23, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

    Hi Chris – just got a whole bunch of your old posts as new in my aggregator. Are you testing the new WP upgrade?

  2. Chris Said,

    January 23, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

    Yeah, sorry, eh? WordPress decided I wasn’t allowed to have images in my posts any more, so I’ve moved my site into a fresh install, and Boom!, everything’s fine. There was some manual cleanup on the most recent posts, which would account for the aggregator traffic.

  3. Harold Jarche Said,

    January 23, 2008 @ 2:21 pm

    See – you can’t hide ;-)

  4. Chris Said,

    January 23, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

    I’m not even sure I can run… :-)

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