December 18, 2004: O Canada, You Can Get iTunes Now…

It isn't very hard to cross the border from Canada to the US; after all, it is the longest unprotected border in the world. There are a handful of border guards but the United States's main deterrent to mobs of Canadian would-be invaders is the fact that the United States’s citizenry insists on drinking really bad beer.

The border is porous where individuals and invading hordes are concerned, but very stringent when it came to selling iTunes music. The legalities took almost 18 months to work out, but Apple finally was able to offer the full iTunes experience. It sent songs at 99 cents (Canadian) to the great white north this month in 2004.