While on the topic of iTunes, Yahoo released a free iPhone app for Flickr this week. However I can’t download it because my iTunes account is linked to Sweden and the app hasn’t been made available in that particular iTunes store.

It’s infuriating because I pay for a pro-Flickr account and because it’s available in other countries like the UK and France. Last I checked one of the big motivators behind the EU was to encourage trade between countries and allow consumers to purchase goods in any EU member nation.

Why does iTunes operate in it’s own special universe where the laws or our economic union don’t apply? Sure would be nice if they just made one store for the whole EU so that things like this could be avoided.