ITunes Store: South Africa: Why is the store so limited?

Why is the store so limited with available Apps? Facebook Apps like Zynga games is unavailable. Angry birds is available from Blackberry for crying out loud but not iTunes South Africa.

This has been covered in many other threads. As reported by another SA user, Apple and the SA government are negotiating over how to apply Apple's iTunes Store age ratings to the SA regulations so as to allow more apps to be sold in the SA iTunes Store. Where those negoiations stand I don't know.
Regards.

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Can anyone explain why iTunes in South Africa is limited to App Store

In the South African store it appears we are restricted from purchasing anything other than AppStore items, for example:
All the iTunes store content is not available : i.e. no music, movies, ebooks, etc.
Also for the iPhone we cannot get access to any of the iPhone games advertised on Apple.com
Can anyone provide some clarity on why Apple has chosen to restrict this content in countries like South Africa, we have a number of other legal online ways to purchase music, movies, etc. online so it appears very strange that Apple have implemented this restriction.

Apple is limited by what the rights holders will allow them to sell. If they can not come to favorable terms with the people who own the distribution rights for the music, movies, television shows, they won't be able to set up an iTunes Store in that country. And, rights holders may not be the same in one country to the another.
You can be fairly certain that, as a profit making company, Apple would be more than happy to take your money if they could do so.
Best of luck.

HT204411 Why are games & music not available for purchase from AppStore & iTunes for south Africa?

I get a cannot connect to ITunes error when trying to access iTunes store. Also I cannot doWnload certain games from AppStore. After searching I found out that these options are not available in South Africa. What would the reason be that certain countries don't have access to these options?

Hey ascott57. This is also disinformation. I have personally spoken to the head approver of games in the FPB in South Africa. The rating charge is only applicable for DISC-based games that are sold in stores, so that parents can identify the games for an age group and also for stores to know when not to sell a game. When a game is sold on a mobile system, it is automatically exempt from this rating system, as the selling platform has automatic parental guidance systems built-in.
There is NO reason why developers are not allowed to publish games to South Africa on the iTunes App Store or Mac App Store. This is Apple not having a section, so developers cannot even target that category, because it simply doesn't even exist.
I registered as a games developer for iOS and when I found out that if I develop games for iOS, I can't even publish it to my own country, I let my developer registration lapse on purpose in protest.

Itunes South Africa so behind the rest of world!!!!

Why do we not have angry birds here in SA Store, the only way for us to get anything decent is to JB my Ipad. Come on who is sleeping at Apple why do you guys not update our content so frustrating.

I wonder if this is an evolving problem, because I am suffering something very similar. I bought a whole album (Bad Manners, Can Can Live) that has 25 tracks in total. I did this on my iPhone. The first 10 tracks downloaded just fine but then iTunes stopped downloading. I then tried syncing the iPhone with iTunes on my PC to see if the PC iTunes would pick up the remaining tracks. But, even though PC iTunes knows that I have purchased the whole album, Check For Purchases also shows that iTunes thinks I have already downloaded the whole album -- even though I have only got the first 10 of 25 tracks.
If I try to repurchase the album, iTunes displays the following message:
"You have already purchased part of the Album Can Can (Live).
You have already purchases part of the Album "Can Can (Live)" but it has not been downloaded yet. Click OK to begin downloading."
...but when I click OK, it simply doesn't download. Again, if I go back to Check For Purchases, it thinks everything has downloaded successfully. Similarly, if I try to complete the download on the iPhone, I get a very similar message, but the download will not complete.
Curiousls, this error message turns up literally no hits in Google (and I've quadruple-checked the spelling/wording), which suggests it's at best a rare problem, or perhaps an emerging one.
Anyone else with similar problems recently?
Scottster

HT5085 iTunes Store Country Limitation in iTunes Match

I have just bought a one year subscription to iTunes Match.
I am based in UAE and have access to the Apple AE iTunes Store and not to any content on the US Store.
My question is, suppose I upload a song that is available in iTunes Store US, will iTunes Match updated it for me from that Library or will the update be limited only to the local store items.
Thanks.

Hello piero.politeo,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you’re running into an iTunes Store connection issue when trying to change the country of the iTunes Store on your MacBook Air. If you haven’t already, take a look at the article linked below which provides a lot of great information and troubleshooting suggestions.
iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting - Apple Support
Ciao,
-Jason

ITunes Store Only Limited to 5 Podcasts?

I have about 15 podcasts on my site but it only keeps the five recent one on the iTunes store. Is there a limit as to how many podcasts someone can have on the iTunes?

This is the exact same problem that I am having and the reason that I came to the support forums!
My site is here: http://www.invertedhourglass.com where I use a basic files attached page to share the audio files directly, but I have my podcast feed here that is is only showing the latest five even though there are currently 6 episodes available! The podcast is here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=320987956 and i can't seem to find anything to change the settings, this is very annoying! This is all being made in garageband, iWeb and hosted on mobileme.
Any info would be great thanks!

I'm an iPad user from South Africa why are 99 present of applications not available here if u want to download something it's not available why do apple sell their product in SA if we can't use anything there is no game on FB I can play I'm very upset

Please if u have any answer let me know I'm very disappointed in apple they sell their product world wide but applications are not available
thank u
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This is a user-to-user technical support forum. You're not addressing Apple here. Nor is anyone but spammers likely to respond to you by email.
Yes, you can use your iPad in South Africa. All of the built in apps should work just fine.
If you want to submit feedback directly to Apple, used the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback
Best of luck.

Im from South Africa and i can only purchase limited games

Im from South Africa and i cannot purchase games from the UK or any country.
The games for South Africa are limited and *****, i like to purches simulation games like air to air combat and games like Grand Torismo
please assist my e mail <Edited by Host>.

"Im from South Africa and i cannot purchase games from the UK or any country."
That is correct.
You can ONLY use the itunes store of your country of residence AND ONLY while you are physically located inside the borders of that country.
There is nothing to be done.
If the itunes store of your country does not sell them, then you cannot buy them.
Sorry.

ITunes 10 (Win 7) - Why does the marker hides whenever I try to switch languages?

This bug is so annoying for any dual keyboard user who want to switch back and forth between languages and have to readjust the mouse marker over and over again in the search field.

You do realize that the message means that you need to download iTunes on the computer and not on the iPad - correct? I just want to make sure that you know that.
If that is the problem, go here to download iTunes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/

I want to buy an ipad 2 with 3g in the US and wanted to find out if it will work in South Africa or is the 3g locked by the service provider

I want to buy an ipad2 3g in the USA and wanted to find out if the 3g will work with a South African sim card or is it locked to a US service provider.

Make sure you get the GSM (AT&T) model, not the Verizon model.
By the way, this forum is for the iPod touch, not the iPad.
Regards.

Why is the icloud adress limited to 21 characters?

My name was already taken and the same happened me at gmail. My solution was to add my middle name and the result was an address 23 characters long. That was no problem with gmail but icloud seems to have a 21 characters limit, why?
This will probably keep me from aquiring an icloud email address becuase adding something similar to my real name will only result in confusion with the already taken address. Adding my middle name would make some sense but anything else would feel too contrived.
I would really like to be able to use applications like Notes and maybe even mail but not if I can't be able to choose an email address that makes sense so please explain to me why I should be prevented from selecting an address 23 characters long...
Ps. I really love my Apple products (iMac, Mac Book Pro, iPads and iPhones) but I don't like them being locked into services that doesen't make sense to me. It is quite frankly taking the edge off the so called user experience. Stupidity like allowing 21 characters for miljons of users to come up with unique user names...

Today I tried to setup Family Sharing on IOS 8.
First I had to give Apple my credit card number to set it up. I have always used gift cards up until now and I do not see why apple need my credit card number to use family sharing. I guess it is so Apple can say they have 5 billion and one credit card numbers on file. Oh Well.
Then I started to create an apple ID for my 10 year old son. Well guess what, Apple won't accept my son's email address because it is over 21 characters long. The domain for my son's email is 17 characters. Add the @ and that makes 18 which only leaves 3 characters for the name. I am not changing my son's email address just to get family sharing working.
Please remove this ridiculous limitation for an apple ID.
I am not going to create a new email address for my son just to use family sharing, No not even an iCloud address.
I am off now to remove my credit card details from my iTunes account.
Too bad that a great idea has been totally ruined because of a silly limit on the length of an email address.

Why is the sorting so limited?

In iTunes when sorting you are only able to sort by one catagory. My difficulty is I have a large library with mostly Classical music in it. When I sort by album it inverts the order of play so as the 4th movement of a symphony is played first and the first last. What I require is some way to sort the album and the order in which the name is needed to be played. I've tried numbering at the start of the name. All this does when sorting by album is to list all the 01 through whatever number is the end only to get all the 01's lumped together.

Thanks – I am aware of that sorting function and do use it
I probably did not phrase my question correctly
In the left hand panels in LR –
If one chooses Folders and then as an example “ My Pictures”
There should be a simple approach to sort the order of the folders by Date Taken etc?
I guess one can work around it – but it seems to simple – I do not understand why Adobe does not include this sorting option
Other programs in photo editing do …..
Thanks
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Why is the decorations so limited?

I have been using labview since 4.0 and have seen huge improvements in most areas of the environment but decorations have not changed all that much, Why? Lately I have seen clients which want to see applications be commercialized but want it to look less like labview from a user point of view. I have to exhaust almost every GUI trick in labview to do this and it is not all that easy. There are so many improvements for labview on this front. There needs to be an extended decoration class which uses a standard vector graphic with additional properties and methods to modify these objects at runtime.
1. Allow for naming of extended decorations to enable referencing these objects (NOT using Decoration[] from pane and keeping track of this unexposed index)
2. Extend the color property from FG, BG to FG, BG, Colors[] where an unlimited number of configurable programatic colors can be changed ate edit or runtime.
3. Allow for blending, texturing and patterning objects.
4. Allow for rotation of vector graphics.
5. Provide methods for accessing and modifying the vector graphics to change the decoration at runtime.
It would be noce to beable to make custom decorations that act much like 3d pipes in DSC.
The ability to have complete control over decorations will allow the GUI of labview to extend much like other languages. I feel that the current decoration object is too limited. Opening up this format could allow the community to make GUIs that rival other languages and environments (think of Apple interfaces). Integrating this control with Xcontrols would allow users to make entire control sets for each industry and toolkits with relative ease.
Just some of my thoughts. I could be alone here.
Paul
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

I dont think performance should take too much of a hit if they use a new data type instead of replacing the original decoration which still has its place. Since the graphic device interface is completly removed from the vi there is no way to implement this without NI adding it. A vector grapohic object native to labview and interchangable with current decoration (possible an extended class) whould be great to have.
Paul
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

Web - 500 images max? Why are the flash templates limited to 500?

Is there any reason for limiting the templates to 500? is there a work-around?
Lorenzo

> Because nobody should be subjected to
> such a crazy large slideshow.
LOL!
On a more serious note, nobody should be subject to waiting while LR processes and uploads over 2000 images. Even on a fast machine that would take some serious time.
I have to wonder if LR is the best application for such large numbers of images. I'd suspect there are better programs out there, ones that don't insist on re-rendering the images every time and re-uploading them all. Dreamweaver comes to mind as an obvious choice.
Should you insist on using LR, possibly consider breaking the images up into galleries. The folks at Theturninggate have some templates that allow you to organize galleries. I haven't used them, so I don't know specifics, but they look like they do some really neat stuff, and they have some automation options to help make it easier.

When will music be available in the iTunes Store in South Africa?

I live in South Africa and I don't have a billing address in another country. I would really like to be able to buy music from the iTunes Store.
At the moment the only thing that I would like to buy in the iTunes Store is music. I can't, so it makes the store unusable for me.
I realise that there are a number of legal issues regarding this at the moment, but is there a plan to find a workaround for this in future? When will we be able to buy music from the iTunes Store in South Africa?
Is the answer: Never?
(Is there a loophole/workaround already available that I am not aware of?)

There is no way to know when unless Apple announces.
You can buy your music from another source, Amazon for example.

ITunes Store: South Africa: Why is the store so limited?

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