Although Apple had problems with the launch of the iTunes Match service in the US, here is how the company started last night to send emails customers from: Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., announcing that iTunes Match is available for purchase. Apple even lists the prices for which iTunes Match can be purchased (in Europe it costs €24.99 of course) but everything turned out to be just a big mistake. The Apple company started last night to return the money to those who signed up to use the service and probably today someone from the iTunes Match team will go home for good.
In general, Apple is a quite secretive company that does not announce products before actually offering them on the market, but now it seems that things are no longer like that. Every company makes mistakes, but Apple has avoided such problems and now probably upset quite a few customers who couldn't wait to use the iTunes Match service. It is not known when exactly Apple will decide to actually launch it worldwide, but it is expected that in 2011 several countries in Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand should have it active.
