The phenomenal iTunes store is about to have its debut in Australia in approximately 10 minutes. Apple currently offers American users to electronically acquire music files for $0.99(US). It looks like Australians will be paying $1.80(AUD) according to The Age. Personally I’m a fond candidate of this service, but $1.80 is a little pricey.

I counted the number of tracks in 10 records that I own. The average track count per album was ((19+22+16+14+13+14+15+19+14+18)/10) 16.4 across 7 different genres. That means a 16 track album would cost roughly $28.80(AUD). A 20gb iPod claims to hold 5,000 songs (encoded at 128kps ACC), so technically it would cost an aussie $9,000(AUD) to fill their iPod. . That sucks, online should be way cheaper!

This Thursday also marks the second anniversary of the iTunes music store, which launched on April 28th 2003. Hopefully the Australian iTunes store will create happy customers.

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Looks promising, although the critics are knocking it in it’s early stages. Heres my page. If you would like an invite, please leave a comment (with email).

Theres mourning stories and services all throughout the media and the world. Still on-topic but related to ‘what comes next?’ is this website.