Itunes Music Store finally in SA

Apple launches Itunes Music Store South Africa 

Well this is a great surprise to wake up to! The South African iTunes Music store has all of a sudden gone live in South Africa! South African’s will now be able to purchase music through the world largest online digital music store.

Users can now choose from over 20 million songs available to purchase and download on the iTunes Store but it appears movies will unfortunately not available in the South African store. The “Games” category is also still ridiculously not available in the South African iTunes App Store. We haven’t tested services like iTunes Match yet but we’re pretty sure it most likely won’t be available here just yet.

We would advise you not to go rushing to deactivate your US or UK accounts, if you have one, but at least it’s a move in the right direction and hopefully some day in the near future the whole store will open up!

We’re busy testing the store as we speak and will update this post as we learn more. Drop your experiences with the store in the comments below.

Itunes Match

Itunes Match is available for R199.99 per year!

Find the Apple press release attached:

Apple® today announced the launch of the iTunes Store® in Russia, Turkey, India, South Africa and 52 additional countries featuring an incredible selection of local and international music from all the major labels and thousands of independent labels. The iTunes Storefeatures local artists including Elka in Russia, Sezen Aksu in Turkey, AR Rahman in India, and Zahara in South Africa, international artists including The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Coldplay, and world-renowned classical musicians including Lang Lang, Yo Yo Ma and Yuja Wang. Customers can choose from over 20 million songs available to purchase and download on the iTunes Store. 

Movie fans can choose from a wide selection of films available for rent or purchase from the iTunes Store, with many available in stunning HD, from major studios including 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures, as well as leading local distributors.* 

The iTunes Store is available in 119 countries and is the best way for iPhone®, iPad®, iPod®, Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online. All music on the iTunes Store comes in iTunes Plus®, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings. 

iTunes® in the Cloud lets you download your previously purchased iTunes music to all your iOS devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases can be downloaded automatically to all your devices. In addition, music not purchased from the iTunes Store can gain the same benefits by using iTunes Match?, a service that stores your entire music library in iCloud® for access at any time, from any iOS device. iTunes Match is available for purchase in the new countries added today. 

Customers also have access to the revolutionary App Store? with more than 700,000 apps available in 155 countries.