iTunes in the Cloud expands in Canada, U.K., Hong Kong, many more
Thursday marked the roll-out of iCloud-based features for a number of new countries around the world. Users in Europe, Asia and North America all began noticing that they have access to movies through iTunes in the Cloud.
Apple also expanded its iTunes Match service on thursday to at least Poland and Hungary. No official announcement was made by the company, and as of Thursday afternoon the official list of countries with iTunes in the Cloud capabilities has not yet been updated.
An extensive list of countries where iTunes in the Cloud movies are now available was collected on Thursday by MacRumors. Additional countries include Ireland, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Honduras, Hungary, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, Sri Lanka Taiwan, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
International roll-out of iTunes in the Cloud functionality has continued steadily since the service debuted in the U.S. late last year. Because of licensing agreements necessary to sell content like movies and music, certain material has become available at different times.
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But the servers are still all located in the US I believe.
I know nothing about server related stuff, but surely it's a bit unrealistic to have every iTunes store customer depending on a server farm in North Carolina? Though on the other hand considering the traffic jam that we suffered through for iOS5, that may well be the case of how things are done at Apple.
However, very happy to finally see the "films in the cloud" feature activated for British iTunes accounts. I have been steadily replacing my collection with iTunes purchases over the last couple of months. Still pisses me off that we can't get HD versions of any of the Marvel comics related movies, but one can hope that this will happen in the near future.
[quote name="cnocbui" url="/t/151387/itunes-in-the-cloud-expands-in-canada-u-k-many-more#post_2150180"]But the servers are still all located in the US I believe. [/quote] What makes you say that? Certainly Apple doesn't rely on Akamai solely for their iTunes store¿
I know nothing about server related stuff, but surely it's a bit unrealistic to have every iTunes store customer depending on a server farm in North Carolina? Though on the other hand considering the traffic jam that we suffered through for iOS5, that may well be the case of how things are done at Apple.
However, very happy to finally see the "films in the cloud" feature activated for British iTunes accounts. I have been steadily replacing my collection with iTunes purchases over the last couple of months. Still pisses me off that we can't get HD versions of any of the Marvel comics related movies, but one can hope that this will happen in the near future.
I find iTunes to be such a bad deal price-wise for everything except music that I rarely buy from them. Nice to see this service activated in Canada (where I am right now), but it's certainly "select" movies. The one movie I purchased isn't available, but the one season of a TV show I purchased is.
I have to agree that iTunes is a bad deal price wise. You get the occasional decent offer in the British store but they are few and far between. However, I have seen what happens when you have huge collection of physical media, and I want to embrace the cloud.