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Originally Posted by strangeseraph
Its amazing how products like the Kindle, Zune, iPhone, etc, have been manufactured solely with US marketplace and technologies in mind without any thought to how well the device will work in outside markets. As if they predict the only good sales will come from the US. (Or they hope so! Maybe having a US only device would drive up the price of it overseas in preperation for a later launch!)
I don't know much about the market, but all I know is that iPhone, Kindle and Zune are not available in Canada. And it sucks.
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I'm not that familiar with Zune but both iPhone and Kindle required partnerships to launch. The iPhone is now coming out in Europe because they made partnerships there. I wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle comes out in other places, too. There are tons of products, I would venture to say most, that do not launch globally. Usually products launch in stages. There are tons of mobile phones available in Europe and Asia that we never see here. Not ever. Not even a few months later. No one's screaming that Nokia is discriminating against the US. Even Motorola, a US company, often debuts their phones in Asia. I understand that America deserves plenty of bashing for a variety of things but this has nothing to do with American feelings of superiority. It's business plain and simple.