I’ve just tried to purchase a copy of Quicktime Pro 7. Given that all I need to purchase is a little reg code and not a real boxed product, I actually expected less pain.
Turns out you can only buy if you’re from certain countries — New Zealand isn’t one of them.
I clicked on the store nearest me, Australia, and the suffering began. First I needed an Apple ID. Luckily I had one from when I signed up to Apple’s equally painful forums.
So I log in, and enter all my details. Except I couldn’t edit country, which remained permanently Australia. OK, so I don’t give a shit because they’re not going to ship me anything. I enter n/a in the State field, because oddly enough, NZ doesn’t have any states.
That didn’t work.
So I entered 00, which also failed. So I entered WN as an abbreviation of my city in NZ. No go. So it’s smart enough to know what states actually exist in Australia. Which means that somewhere down the track, something will probably fail.
But why the fuck do I have to go through all this trouble?
I now don’t own a copy of Quicktime Pro, and my respect for Americans has gone down another notch. No, it’s not just Apple. Most people in America aren’t actually aware that there are other countries that have evolved past the age of the neanderthals. And those who are worldly think that New Zealand is a little island off the bottom of Australia.
That’s Tasmania you inbred fucktards.
We’re our own fucking country and we want to be able to buy Quicktime Pro!
And we want the fucking iTunes store. And we want to be able to upload podcasts to your iTunes store. That is, if we could bloody register Quicktime to create the things in the first damned place.
I’m going to go on a Hulk rampage now.
