Itunes Store Australia, When's it catching up to the rest of the world??!!

Question

Hi all, I have recently purchased an ipod touch here in sydney australia, with the understanding that I was going to be able to buy and download movies and tv shows from the itunes store. How dissapointed am I? Very. Itunes store australia only seems to pod casts of limited or no interest to me, which is particually annoying as the marketing for the ipod touch in Australia is the same as it is in the States. Which I think is wrong, Apple should make it clear that all the good stuff (Movies) are not avaliable to Australians using itunes store, other wise theres going to be thousands of us who are essentially buying 8 gb MP3 players for 420 dollars! Please apple update stores world wide to the same as the States or change the marketing for which ever region your selling the product in, and on that note whats the point of releasing the apple TV box thing in Australia if you can't watch anything on it except podcasts, photos or listen to music. Am I wrong? Please if I am show me where to download movies and tv shows to my ipod so I can get some use out of it!
Cheers John
Australia

Answer 1

Some or all of the major iTunes store announcements in the last 12-24 months haven't been carried out in Australia
Thats because Jobs clearly said in his keynote that the content is initially for the US but planned for expansion to other countries later in the year.
When were we supposed to see them arrive here?! Now I'm looking at the movie rentals stuff thinking how great would that be with my apple tv and how long exactly 'later this year' means and if 'International' includes australia at all.
Jobs never said a firm release date because he doesn't know. Its all based on how negotiations with the studios go and their ability to get content out there.
They should have a separate keynote that actually applies to Australia, and perhaps give us some idea of when we can expect any of this media to arrive down under.
The problem is that Australia is not the only other country out there. By your logic, Apple should have separate major events that essentially convey the same message for each and every country that will support new iTunes content. Its far easier to just do it once since the news is going to get out there anyway. Why be redundant.