Apple Hates Canadians

BYTE-Smasher · December 28, 2009, 9:58pm

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?t…99&tstart=0

I’m getting sick and tired of how shitty Apple’s policies are towards Canadians. I received a gift card for my birthday so that I could purchase apps on my touch, which I purchased to use as a PDA, and it turns out I can’t use the card to purchase apps. I don’t want to purchase music or videos, as that’s not my intended use for this device. My family essentially wasted $20 on the gift certificate, and I’ve essentially wasted $300 on this device, all because I can’t download the apps I wanted to use to manage my business. To top it off, I wouldn’t have gotten the gift certificate in the first place had Apple not also disallowed me from using Paypal to purchase these apps.

I keep getting the runaround from iTunes support regarding this issue. They’re unable to tell me why Apple has implemented these discriminatory policies, and they’re unwilling to help me resolve the issue without forcing me to spend more money.

It’s no wonder people are jailbreaking these devices. I’m tempted to out of principle, but I’d much prefer it if I could purchase the apps I’ll be using on a daily basis.

I’m not even going to go into how shitty iPhone data plans are in Canada… if I’d been able to get a decent plan, I’d have gone for an iPhone instead of a touch, but we’re getting raped in that area.

Can anyone tell me why Apple hates Canadians so much?

Feel free to contribute to that thread if you’re a Canadian iPod Touch or iPhone user

BYTE-Smasher · December 28, 2009, 10:26pm

They so definitely deleted that thread

vvoois · December 28, 2009, 10:58pm

Ofcourse they do… discrimination usually goes hand in hand with censorship.
Freedom of speech to them is just a heap of Gorilla-dung if it is aimed to make their stuff impopular.
Just recreate the topic again and count down the amounts of deletions before they ban your account…

Johann · December 28, 2009, 11:09pm

And try leaving out the words shitty and raped. Just an idea. Especially the latter - wtf!!! I’m not being touchy, I myself have compared stuff to rape in the past – but, you know, stuff that was FORCED on me/someone else (and even then it’s a bad comparison, and it’s ALWAYS guys who use it… facepunch) - you however are not getting raped at all. Nowhere near. You’re being fleeced, yeah. And it sucks. But the more restraint you use, the more weight your words will have. Which is kinda funny coming from me, but still true

It’s fucking bad enough with what shit one gets away on these forums here (I must know), but to expect that to fly on a corporate website is kinda silly?! You could even try irony.

td6d · December 29, 2009, 12:02am

I get discriminated too:

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trepain · December 30, 2009, 5:21am

People still purchase apple products? (g)

vvoois · December 30, 2009, 11:58am

There are also folks that still use Microsoft stuff. (WinCE devices etc.).
Honestly, how much choice do you have? if you cut off all the branches, there are only a few main cores left which are Beos, Linux and Microsoft. And whatever logo shines above it, that does not matter.

Fullofkittens · December 30, 2009, 1:59pm

I’m no fan of iTunes, but I have to suspect that their hands are tied on this issue. I’m sure that the reason that iTunes works differently depending on the country is that record labels’ permission that was sold to Apple for selling music online is contingent on the country they’re selling it in.

A different country represents a totally different regulatory situation and a whole new set of contracts, I’m sure. They’re probably working on it, but it would probably be illegal for them to just give Canadian users the same access that US users get.