Apple does it again.

From the rules of their 500 millionth iTunes song promotion:

Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Entrants must enter the Promotion through the iTunes Music Store accessible in your country of residence. There is one Promotion, and the Rules in your country of residence govern your participation in the Promotion. Entrants under 18 should obtain a parent?s or guardian?s consent before participating. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. Directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents of Apple, its subsidiaries, affiliates, resellers, or advertising or promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (defined as children, parents, siblings or spouses) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. To participate, entrants must: 1) have a computer with iTunes software installed (iTunes software is available for free at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), 2) have Internet access; and 3) submit an Entry.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: jumpr
From the rules of their 500 millionth iTunes song promotion:

Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Entrants must enter the Promotion through the iTunes Music Store accessible in your country of residence. There is one Promotion, and the Rules in your country of residence govern your participation in the Promotion. Entrants under 18 should obtain a parent?s or guardian?s consent before participating. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. Directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents of Apple, its subsidiaries, affiliates, resellers, or advertising or promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (defined as children, parents, siblings or spouses) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. To participate, entrants must: 1) have a computer with iTunes software installed (iTunes software is available for free at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), 2) have Internet access; and 3) submit an Entry.

You are reading it wrong, it's open to citizens of all states and DofC, plus all of those countries.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: jumpr
From the rules of their 500 millionth iTunes song promotion:

Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Entrants must enter the Promotion through the iTunes Music Store accessible in your country of residence. There is one Promotion, and the Rules in your country of residence govern your participation in the Promotion. Entrants under 18 should obtain a parent?s or guardian?s consent before participating. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. Directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents of Apple, its subsidiaries, affiliates, resellers, or advertising or promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (defined as children, parents, siblings or spouses) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. To participate, entrants must: 1) have a computer with iTunes software installed (iTunes software is available for free at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), 2) have Internet access; and 3) submit an Entry.

You are reading it wrong, it's open to citizens of all states and DofC, plus all of those countries.

 

[Ramma2]

Probably would have made more sense like this

a legal resident of one of the 50 United States (including Washington, D.C.), Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom

 

[Reel]

You can figure out what they meant. It is merely an awkward grammatical structure yet valid. Was this truly necessary? You haven't found a loophole to win this contest.

 

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: jumpr
From the rules of their 500 millionth iTunes song promotion:

Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Entrants must enter the Promotion through the iTunes Music Store accessible in your country of residence. There is one Promotion, and the Rules in your country of residence govern your participation in the Promotion. Entrants under 18 should obtain a parent?s or guardian?s consent before participating. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. Directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents of Apple, its subsidiaries, affiliates, resellers, or advertising or promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (defined as children, parents, siblings or spouses) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. To participate, entrants must: 1) have a computer with iTunes software installed (iTunes software is available for free at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), 2) have Internet access; and 3) submit an Entry.

You are reading it wrong, it's open to citizens of all states and DofC, plus all of those countries.

Their grammar is wrong. They should say "including Washington, D.C., and residents of Austria, Belgium, etc.

Separating entries of a list with a comma and then moving on to the next list with nothing more than a comma is poor punctuation. They should differentiate their lists.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Separating entries of a list with a comma and then moving on to the next list with nothing more than a comma is poor punctuation. They should differentiate their lists.

The best possible punctuation in that case is to use a semicolon to differentiate the outer list. In this type of run-on sentence, it is also much more clear to use the optional comma or semicolon before the "and"/"or".

one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C.; Austria; Belgium; Canada, excluding the Province of Quebec; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; or the United Kingdom.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: jumpr
Separating entries of a list with a comma and then moving on to the next list with nothing more than a comma is poor punctuation. They should differentiate their lists.

The best possible punctuation in that case is to use a semicolon to differentiate the outer list. In this type of run-on sentence, it is also much more clear to use the optional comma or semicolon before the "and"/"or".

one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C.; Austria; Belgium; Canada, excluding the Province of Quebec; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; or the United Kingdom.

Agreed. The "including..." section should be differentiated from the list. They could've used the comma/semi-colon approach or the parentheses/comma method.

 

[Tu13erhead]

Oh no! Someone used a comma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[YetioDoom]

Windowz rulez!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The comma between the words "states" and "including" needs to be removed.

 

[knyghtbyte]

thing is, with that error, they could use that as a get out clause to not supply winners with their prizes.....at least those abroad.....

"oh we are so sorry, but seeing as Austria isnt yet a US state you cannot claim your prize."

🙂

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: jumpr
From the rules of their 500 millionth iTunes song promotion:

Eligibility. In order to be eligible, entrants must be 13 years of age or older, and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States, including Washington, D.C., Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Entrants must enter the Promotion through the iTunes Music Store accessible in your country of residence. There is one Promotion, and the Rules in your country of residence govern your participation in the Promotion. Entrants under 18 should obtain a parent?s or guardian?s consent before participating. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. Directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents of Apple, its subsidiaries, affiliates, resellers, or advertising or promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (defined as children, parents, siblings or spouses) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. To participate, entrants must: 1) have a computer with iTunes software installed (iTunes software is available for free at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), 2) have Internet access; and 3) submit an Entry.

You are reading it wrong, it's open to citizens of all states and DofC, plus all of those countries.

of course, but its also a poorly phrased sentence

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
thing is, with that error, they could use that as a get out clause to not supply winners with their prizes.....at least those abroad.....

"oh we are so sorry, but seeing as Austria isnt yet a US state you cannot claim your prize."

🙂

That would never happen. There's this little thing called common sense. It's obvious that they're also offering to citizens of those other countries so there's no way they'd be able to get out of it just from saying something about them not being US states.