The efficacy of the supply chain industry allows people to easily source all kinds of products from different parts of the globe. However, despite this, there are products that are just not readily accessible in every single country. Take, for example, over 200 variants of Kit-Kat chocolates available in Japan; if you want to sample all the flavors of the said chocolate wafer stick ever invented, you either go to Japan to personally buy them, or you get somebody you know heading to the Land of the Rising Sun to buy your supplies for you.
The content found in iTunes in the United States is somewhat similar to that popular product.
This selection is the biggest in the world, but if you’re not from the US and you’re just using your local account, you don’t get access to all of the products in the US iTunes catalogue. And don’t even think that you can use your international credit card or PayPal to trick the store into thinking that you’re from the US — that’s not going to work. Bummer, right? What’s even more disappointing is the fact that it’s not easy to purchase a US iTunes gift card. Your local Mac Store won’t have them. Unlike in the US where these cards can be purchased from Target, Walmart, or Macy’s, you simply don’t see those easily if you live abroad. The US iTunes store is like the Beverly Hills boutique in the movie “Pretty Woman” — you can have all the money to buy what you want, but that isn’t a guarantee that you actually get to buy.
