App Store available in 62 countries[Update: it seems Steve has already promised to]

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App Store available for 62 countries
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This is a screenshot I took at around 7:00 am July 10th.
It seems a lot of countries that do not appear in Apple’s “July 11″ and “Coming soon” list get App Store as well. For example, Pakistan, Vietnam, Korea, China and Russia are not in the big party yet. A hint that those countries will get iPhone 3G sooner than expected? Very likely not really. But more importantly, it seems that App Store is going to be a global iPhone app store unlike iTunes Music Store which is only available for a few countries in the world. And this App Store, as Steve Jobs puts it, “The biggest launch of my career.” The profit from app selling will be quite something, or something even bigger, considering how many iPod Touch have been sold in addition to the sales of iPhone.
This is the Apple’s promised list:0559646efe4b4e8bc7c8fb5c0a79a290 App Store available in 62 countries[Update: it seems Steve has already promised to]

Update: Now Apple changed it to this:
9c6869f181e47756294a81b5080b65f3 App Store available in 62 countries[Update: it seems Steve has already promised to]
Update 2: well, it seems if you click the drop down list of “My store”, you can always choose one of the stores that is not in the “big party” yet. Then after you changed the store, click on the flag button next to the drop down list and you will be able to see the 62-country list rather than 22-country list.
Update 3: Now it seems it will always return you the 62-country list. A global App Store indeed as Steve has promised. Every country has their own app store. That is, just like the way iTunes Store was handled, each country will have its own rating system and ranking system.
There’s something unusual about these two lists. If you noticed, there are 71 countries in Apple’s promised list in total, and no signs of Korea, Russia and China. However, they do appear in the App Store list even though they don’t get the “legal” iPhones yet. On the other hand, some countries that are in Apple’s 71-country list, for example, Botswana and Macau, do not have their own App Store yet. There’s no doubt that iPhone will one day come to China, Korea, Vietnam and Russia, the open of their own App Stores maybe a sign of earlier release of the iPhone 3G, or perhaps it’s just for the iPod Touch(and unlocked iPhone) owners in those countries. But some part of me are also wondering if it’s also a sign of the coming of their own iTunes Music Store, since the pop music industry in China, Korea and Russia are all pretty huge and they have been waiting for the iTunes Music Store for ages.



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