Apple launches music service

Apple has finally unveiled its much-rumoured music downloads service along with a new version of iTunes. And jolly nice it all looks too, at first glance, boasting a nice interface and more than 200,000 songs to download at 99 cents a throw (whole albums at $9.99). The whole thing is rather spoiled, however, by the fact the music service doesn't work for anyone with a billing address outside the US... no word from Apple on when, if ever, they plan to bring this to the rest of the world. I get a nasty sinking feeling about how long we'll have to wait, though. Apple's not been good in the past at rolling out international versions of things (look at Sherlock, where there's been a whole bunch of cool stuff available only to US residents for near-on 18 months now) and even if there was the will, there's doubtless a tangle of music rights to sort out...