Apple has started offering movies and music for sale in the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store. Starting with music (and gift cards) last week and movies today. You can buy movies from Disney, Pixar, Columbia and some Arabic movies as well. Movies are currently sold for between 19.99 and 49.99 SR. Some movies are available for rent for 9.99 SR. You ...

Turns out that today’s special iTunes announcement was just the availability of The Beatles’ music library for sale on the iTunes Music Store. The Middle Eastern community was not impressed with that announcement. Could this be a term of the settlement between Apple Corp and Apple Inc? A dispute that took years to resolve? I was hoping for a better ...

Apple has just announced in a press release that the iTunes University section of their store has reached over 300 million downloads. We already reported that Apple had over 250 million iTunes U downloads last month. iTunes U is a free service where some universities provide recordings of their courses for download including the iPhone development course by Stanford. The ...

According to The Loop, Apple’s iTunes U got over 250 million downloads! iTunes U is a free service where some universities provide recordings of their courses for download including the iPhone development course by Stanford. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook.

If you tried to launch the iTunes App in the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (iOS devices) and you were logged with the Saudi iTunes account then you will face this error message “itunes store not supported in this country”. And now after Apple finally opened a Podcast section in the Saudi iTunes Store you can open the iTunes App ...

I have just noticed that Apple finally added a “Podcasts” section in the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store. I would assume that with this Apple also added a Podcasts section for countries without an iTunes Music Store. The increases the available sections to the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store to 3: App Store, Podcasts and iTunes U. With that, you don’t need ...