Apple iTunes Store available for Malaysia
This fine saturday morning I had planed to update my iPod Touch to firmware version 2.0. Note that I did not Jailbreak my iPod Touch. If you do have a Jailbreak iPod Touch or iPhone, updating it will locked it back down.
I was planing to use an iTunes gift card and an American home address, to have access to an iTunes Store account. You can read the little how-to written a while back on setting up an iTunes account in Malaysia.
Today however while I was at the iTunes Store, I notice that you could choose the country ‘Malaysia’. Click on the rounded Malaysia flag button, and I’m in the iTunes Store, however there are no music or movies and TV shows available for purchase. It is only the iTunes Apps Store that is available.
I registered an account with my credit card, which has a Malaysian billing address and it works. So there you go, finally a iTunes Store for Malaysia. But you are only limited to the iTunes apps, not the iTunes music collection.
This will make it possible for people with the iPod Touch here in Malaysia to enjoy the Apple experience of buying and downloading free apps for their device, without going through loopholes or some hackery. This also brings hopes for those planing to bring back unlock iPhone 3G, from countries that are going to sell unlock iPhone 3G.
However, I have yet able to update my iPod Touch to firmware 2.0. I’ve been trying since this morning and all I got were an error message dialog box:-
We could not complete your iTunes Store request.
The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later
Reports are saying that Apple’s servers just weren’t prepared for the onslaught of new users. Guess I’ve to wait.
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Guess what?,.. right after I post this I was able to download firmware 2.0. Updating my iPod Touch.
this is awesome news! luckily i have 2 itunes accounts, so i’ll use the 2nd one just for malaysia purchases.
awesome.. ive just update my itouch with software version 2.0// cool.. i can control music playback on itunes (mac) using itouch wirelessly/also work with pc.
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Well… good to know that the 2.0 is out. But I’m still facing the same problem here – unable to process request. Don’t know what happened. It seemed like the server can’t handle credit card requests yet. I guess I’ll have to wait some more.
Have anyone tried using Malaysia Itunes account to activate (fully unlocked) Iphone 3G?
[...] was fine before when I have not yet registered to the iTunes Malaysian Store. I understand that the Music, Movies and TV Shows on iTunes Store are not available due to some [...]
SOS! help me..i just had an iphone version1.1.
downloaded apllications from istore, but then how to get that into my iphone.?
Somebody dear out there, plz tell me howww..
tq
azer, you’ll need iPhone firmware version 2.0 and above to be able to use App Store stuff.
Anyone know if music, movies etc will ever be available in the Malaysia iTunes store? Please say yes
Yes SS, I think movies and music will be available in iTunes Malaysia… but in a loooong time to come. It’s not Apple’s decision. It’s the music labels (Warner, Sony, etc) and the movie studios who don’t want to sell here.
smokeweed
Hey, does anyone know whether the currency is in RM or is still USD when u select itunes malaysia?
it’s still in USD. your credit card will be charged according to your bank’s exchange rate.
i’ve read the arctl….can we sell apps on the malaysia itune store….
Yeps, you can sell stuff on the iTunes store. In fact there are quite a few Malaysians with apps already on the store, e.g. http://www.thewabbitstudio.com/
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