ITunes Store South Africa

Hi all. South Africa is quickly joining the rest of the world with it's addiction to Apple products. Our iTunes store only allows App purchases, no music, no movies. There may be a rights issue with Music. But I really want to set something up for video, so I can install more Apple TVs and allow clients to buy movies.
What can I do?
Regards

Unfortunately there's nothing you can do, at least as regards the iTunes Store. Apple has apparently not been able to negotiate rights to sell videos and movies in your country, so you'll have to look for other sources for videos and movies and hope that they're in a format that can either be played directly on the Apple TV or converted appropriately (very unlikely, since all other download stores I've seen that sell movies have copy protection not compatible with Apple's products, but you can look).
Regards.

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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.

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.

APP Store South Africa is a JOKE!

How can the no 6 top paid app on the South African app store be a guide for Angry Birds?
You can’t even download Angry Birds on the South African App store!
What a joke!
To get any decent apps from apple in South Africa you have to open a fake USA account.
Everyone with other brand phones can get all the apps in South Africa.
I am sure there are more “smaller” countries around the world with the same watered down service. I don’t think that apple realizes that all these little numbers will add up and turn on them
I am sure you will be able to guess what my next phone won’t be!

No one here can help you. Contact iTunes support & see what's going on:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

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.

Buying quicktime pro in south africa

Dear All
I want to buy quicktime pro but with the country selection box south africa does not appear. So how do I buy it online from south africa please?
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http://www.apple.com/za/
http://www.apple.com/za/buy/
http://www.apple.com/za/buy/online/
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Why is the ITunes Store in South Africa so limited

why is the ITunes Store in South Africa so limited

Apple can only sell content where the rights-holders grant them licenses to sell it (and in some cases a country's laws also limit things). If there is a particular item that is not currently available that you would like to be able to download then you try requesting that it be added, but unless the rights-holder agrees to it then Apple won't be able to sell it there : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
For music you could check to see if its available on other music purchase downloads sites that you have access to (or if it's available as a CD then you could buy that and copy it via your computer's iTunes).
For ebooks there are other ebook apps/stores where it might be available e.g. Amazon/Kindle, Nook, Kobo etc

Itunes Store for South Africa

Hey guys!!
Will Itunes/Apple EVER allow other countries other than the US to purchase music, TV shows etc? I live in South Africa and the itunes store only consists of an app store... I use an iphone 3G as well, and love Apple....

Hello everyone. I am just as upset about the fact that we cannot purchase content from the Apple iTunes store, but they do have a valid and understandable reason why this isn't possible.
Local Media Companies will suffer a great loss due to the fact that their music and tv shows are slightly older then that in the USA, and they also like to be the first to release such content.
With South African's purchasing the latest TV shows on iTunes there would be no point for having DSTV since the TV shows on the iTunes store are newer then those on DSTV. This is just one example of what great drama this could cause for local businesses.
Now the other option for apple would be to create a separate store for each country offering only the content that is available to that country as chosen by the local media. This on the other hand would take a lot of work, and a lot of money. I think that Apple is focussing on other things first, such as the new iMac's MacBook's and Magic Mouse.
Hopefully one day.. (SOON!! Please Steve?) They will expand the iTunes store globally. With a separate content collection for each country in order not to infringe on copyrights and broadcasting rights.
I will patently wait..
Yours Truly
Purebred Apple Fanboy - David Venter

I am from South Africa an the itune store only allows the purchase of some music , whenever i try to buy Jesus Culture- Everything . an error message comes "only availble in US " , PLEASE HELP .Thank you

I am from South Africa and the itune store only allows the purchase of some music , whenever i try to buy Jesus Culture- Everything . an error message comes up "only availble in US " , PLEASE HELP .Thank you

I had the same issue this morning downloading a pre-order of Alanis, Flavors of Entanglement . I noticed that the only thing that had changed fro me was that I had some song credits for purchasing ticketmaster tickets over the past few weeks. When I went ahead and spent my remaining credits... it downloaded with no prompting or trouble. Maybe the credits issues hangs it up?

Games in iTunes Apps Store not available in South Africa?

Hi.
Does anyone know why the Games category for the iPhone and relevant games are not available in the iTunes Apps Store in South Africa?
I obviously live in SA and would like to download some games for the iPhone 3G.
A.

Either the answer is:
1) The developers of said applications (if you are referring to the iPhone and iPod Touch apps) excluded south Africa
2) Its an error in the iTunes store.
Unfortunately there is no way of knowing without emailing Apple directly since they aren't going to be able to comment here.

When will South Africa be getting further stores in iTunes such as music?

I live in South Africa and as a standard, we only get iTunes U, Podcasts and the App Store. I would like to know if and when SA might be getting it's own iTunes store for music, TV Shows ect. It becomes incredibly frustrating when I want to look at music that I need to change my country to the USA in my account. This causes problems as I have to change it back when ever I wish to download an app for my iPhone.

This is a user to user help forum only so no one here can answer this question.
This has more to do with those who own distribution rights for music that can be sold/distrubuted in South Africa.

When will South Africa itunes store have music available to buy/download

When will South Africa itunes store have music available to buy/download?

There is no one from Apple here, thus no one here can answer your question.

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.

Why can't you purchase stuff from the itunes store if you're not in that country? I'm in South Africa and most of the best things I want to download are on the US itunes, so I try switch to it but it won't let me download or purchase? I don't get it?

I don't get why? What's the harm if you're in a different country? We all pay the same way and the internet was made to connect people over the world, stuff is downloaded from different global destinations millions of times a day. So what's the point of having an itunes store and App Store that limits you to the boring stuff in your own country? You read about these great app's, bands etc and find them in search engines, you have all the Mac products, but then you can't use them coz of where you're currenlty living? It's like a horrible tease!
Is there a way around this? Or what can be done in order to access the things I want?
Any advice, suggestions anyone?

The reason is licensing - artists/record companies/TV networks/movie distributors all have separate licensing deals in different countries (or no licensing deals at all). It isn't mysterious or secret.
The only way around this is to have an iTunes account in the other country - either a valid credit card with billing address in that country, or an iTunes gift card from that country (though you'll still be asked for a billing address in the country for which you've purchased the card).

HT1420 I cannot access the iTunes Store in South Africa.

It worked well earlier as it is our first day on the store but now it just wont connect. It just stays stuck in the 'accessing iTunes Store' state as shown in the image below.
Please Help! :-(

I'd suggest just waiting a few hours, or perhaps until tomorrow or Thursday. There may be technical issues with the servers handling SA, or they may be overloaded with people jumping in to check things out, and it may all sort itself out in a while.
Regards.

ITunes Store South Africa

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