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> But it isn't Apple that is making them tied to regions, this is a requirement of the record and movie industries who seem to think that price and release disc
by tomflack 14y ago
> But it isn't Apple that is making them tied to regions, this is a requirement of the record and movie industries who seem to think that price and release discrimination by region makes sense.
It is also a problem for Apps. There are loads of apps available in some countries but not others. It's up to the app developer to make them available globally. I understand not wanting to offer your app in countries where it won't work, but it's super annoying when you visit or move to another country to not be able to access them.
- sigkill 14y agoPardon my ignorance, but I am unable to think of a use-case where it's beneficial for an app developer to not allow his app be available globally.
- tomflack 14y agoWhen it's fundamentally broken internationally and people start giving it bad reviews when it doesn't work. That's the only case I can think of and even then it's quite weak.
- patrikmcguire 14y agoIt's a lot of work to set up billing in all the different countries, so they may not have bothered. There are also a lot of legal issue with different privacy laws (Europe being stricter) and censorship requirements (e.g. swastikas in Germany, denigration of Attaturk in Turkey). It's not likely that anyone's actively avoiding global availability, but it may be more worth for a period of time to use their limited resources on making the US version better rather than dealing with those headaches.