{"id":832,"date":"2010-05-19T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=832"},"modified":"2010-05-26T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:57:50","slug":"hey-apple-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Hey Apple &#8230; Huh?  (Gift cards can&#8217;t buy apps in Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, iTunes customers in Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100519\/CGY_Itunes_Apple_100519\/20100519\/?hub=CalgaryHome\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t use gift cards to purchase apps<\/a> from the app store.\u00a0 Seems that this might be in violation of Canadian law as such terms must be disclosed on the packaging so that consumers know the full story before purchase.\u00a0 This little tidbit of information is only available on the iTunes website.<\/p>\n<p>Update 5\/26\/10:\u00a0 Faced with the option, by Canadian law, of either allowing iTunes gift cards to purchase anything, or update their gift card packaging to indicate the gift card&#8217;s limitations, Apple has chosen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphoneincanada.ca\/iphone-news\/canadian-itunes-gift-cards-now-work-for-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\">allow iTunes gift cards to purchase apps<\/a> from the app store.\u00a0 Perhaps this is only a temporary remedy until they can update their gift card packaging for Canada, or perhaps the change is permanent.\u00a0 Still no explanation why these gift cards couldn&#8217;t purchase apps in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, iTunes customers in Canada can&#8217;t use gift cards to purchase apps from the app store.\u00a0 Seems that this might be in violation of Canadian law as such terms must be disclosed on the packaging so that consumers know the full story before purchase.\u00a0 This little tidbit of information is only available on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}