Using the App Store as a non US citizen not possible?

Big whoops - nobody here can help you as we are all just users like you. We have no insight beyond what you can read in the press.

Isn't there a "transfer" option in syncing options? Almost all apps that work for iPhone/Ipod touch should work flawlessly on iPad, so sync em to the iPad instead....the iPad is my first and (so far) only Apple product, so I may be wrong about that, however, I DID see a transfer option (meaning as I interpreted it) which seems to transfer an app you purchased for ipod, to transfer to a different device.....again I reserve the right to be wrong.

Kind of - if you have a Swiss account you can download whatever you want and sync it across multiple devices as much as you want as long as you own them and as long as the devices owners are in your family.... and as long as they are iPods and iPhones.

The OP's problem is that they were purchased on a non-US iTunes account/store and plugging in an iPad won't help him as the Swiss store that owns the content in effect, doesn't yet support the iPad.

You can't transfer ownership between accounts and one of the accounts doesn't accept iPads yet.

You're pretty much out of luck until the iPad is released in Europe.

Ohhhhh I didn't know that. Always good to know, thanks!

I am Canadian and have the same problem - I'm going to have a discussion with the US apple support people - will try to remember to let you know

Good luck however the experience from the iPhone world is that without a US Credit card and a US address, you will not get anywhere - nobody has ever reported success for legal licencing reasons. Do let us know how you get on though.

Graham is correct - the answer was: all of us (non US folk) must wait til the items in question are released in our country of residence. = (

You can definitely do this. I'm a Canadian and for years I've had a US iTunes account for getting the free apps and some US-only apps. This weekend, I also bought an iPad, and in order to get some paid iPad apps, I simply bought an iTunes gift card.

I used iTunes, logged into my US itunes account, then redeemed the gift card.

Voila! I downloaded and paid for Keynote and am now running it on my iPad.

I can browse the US store from my Mac or from the iPad or iPhone/iTouch.

Back home, you simply use your iTunes program, log into the iTunes US store and shop away. You can then log out, and log back in with your country's iTunes account and continue to use it normally.

When you sync your iPad/iPhone/iPod, all accounts that have been logged into and downloaded apps from on that computer will sync to your device(s).

Here's how you do it:

1. Open a new account in the US iTunes store
2. Supply US address & zip code -- you can find any number of valid addresses in the US. Personally, I used a relative's address but you can use anything.
3. Supply an email address -- did you know you can simply add a "+US" to your existing email from most servers? Check to see if it works. eg. user@gmail.com can also be user+US@gmail.com. This allows you to keep the email addresses separate for logins yet all will come into the same address.
4. Once set up you can download free apps at will. Buy and redeem an iTunes card to purchase apps. iTunes will keep track of your credit.
5. You just need to log into the US iTunes store occasionally to download the updates (you'll still see the update badge showing some number if you've updated all your apps from your home, but there are US apps needing an update).

Mark,

There is another (limited) way: you can create an Apple-account without the use of a creditcard. Just go to the US app-store and select a free app (ie iBooks) and log in while making a new account. When selecting method of payment you can select none. This means you can at least use all the free apps until Apple EU gets its act together.

Good luck!