the rest of the world & iPhoto

[gigi]

Happy Christmas...
After taking some pics of my family & friends over the festive season, I proudly boasted of how i would get my mac to send the pictures to apple and get them printed in a beautiful book format.....sounds good so far.
So i organize my book, click on share, click on order book (this is so easy....it is too good to be true)
And well, it is too good to be true.....to my immense disappointment i find find that i can only order print or a book if i live in the US or Canada.

Why is this....

I live in Ireland & I can use 1-click to order thing from the Irish Apple store....so why cant i get some pics printed.
I feel like a second class apple citizen

[gigi]

I dont know why this post was moved from the "Mac OS X System & Software" forum. The post was concerned with Mac OS X software......software made by apple.....and the lack a considerable feature for everyone outside of the US and Canada.

I now feel like a second class macosx.com citizen also (boo hoo poor me)

[edX]

geez, when people want to feel picked on they can look for it everywhere

it was moved because it deals with an iphoto issue, which is in the domain of the digital canvas forum. but i left a redirect in the original forum you posted to, so technically you are getting exposure in 2 forums.

and for what it's worth, i agree with your sentiments that you should have the ability to order the books as well as yanks and canucks. surely it shouldn't be that hard for apple to set up partenerships with printers around the world.

[Sogni]

Maybe you can use someone's address in the US or Canada to place the order, then have them ship it to you. A little extra work, some extra time and a few more bucks - but should work.

[Meltdown]

The same goes for using Sherlock 3. I live in the netherlands. Sherlock is useless over here. Works only if you're in the US. Pretty lame.

[gigi]

geez, when people want to feel picked on they can look for it everywhere

Ed, i consider you the "yoda" of this board, so i say this respectfully, but i am sure if everyone but "SF Bay Area" could use iPhoto you would feel pretty "picked on" as well.

Meltdown, you are correct i thnk i have opened "Sherlock" about 3 times since you can search from the Finder.....i app is useless to me also.

BTW, i read on /. (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1747202) that "Early Christmas morning I downloaded some digital pictures into iPhoto on OS X 10.2.3. My trusty iBook began playing what sounded like a repeating Irish jig."

maybe apple have realised their mistake......

[edX]

gigi - that's about a nice a thing as anybody has ever said about me. thank you. my only real point was that we would never pick on you around here. we're just trying to keep things organized.

and yea, i'll repeat, that's pretty poor of apple to not offer this to everyone - they could at least just increase shipping and handling charges. since i don't really care about or use sherlock anyway, i'm not getting involved in whether that should or shouldn't be offered to everybody.

[andrewhicks]

Yes, and this is especially annoying when considering that Apple keep giving freebies to .Mac subscribers in the form of Kodak prints.

Almost $50 worth. So, not only do we not get access to the same services, but we dont get the occasional perks that Apple "reward" loyalty with.

Can it be SO difficult to set up partnership with a digital photography service? When was iPhoto released again?

I guess that Mac users in Europe don't account for much business.

Same with iMovie. I don't yet have a digital camera, but have lots of files converted into quicktime streams that I would like to incorporate into movies. Unfortunately the default format for a new movie project when a camera is not attached is NTSC, not PAL, which is the standard here. Therefore I cannot import the streams either. Is it so difficult to give us the option of creating a PAL project?

Glorius apps that really empower us to be very creative, but still very unkind to those of us in Europe.

Andrew