{"id":29,"date":"2004-06-15T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=29"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","slug":"itunes-store-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/06\/15\/itunes-store-open\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Store open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/\">Apple (UK and Ireland) homepage<\/a> is showing that the iTunes store is now open. I haven&#8217;t actually bought any tracks yet though.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing is reasonable, 79p a track is below what the 86p a track that some people were thinking. That still makes it about 40% more than the US iTunes store. (79p is worth about $1.43 at today&#8217;s exchange rate). However it isn&#8217;t too bad and is somewhat better than the 99p a track some people were suggesting.<\/p>\n<p>(Currency conversion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/\">xe.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple (UK and Ireland) homepage is showing that the iTunes store is now open. I haven&#8217;t actually bought any tracks yet though. Pricing is reasonable, 79p a track is below what the 86p a track that some people were thinking. That still makes it about 40% more than the US iTunes store. (79p is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}