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Originally Posted by JEMelby
In some rare cases, it almost seems to border on animosity, if not outright jealousy.
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"Fraustration", in my own case
. Please don't think that I am in any way whatsoever "hostile" towards people in the US. It gets somewhat irksome, however, to read "headline" announcements of some wonderful offer, only then to discover that it's only available to the tiny minority of the planetary population who live in the US.
I know that there is an eminently good reason why this applies in the case of the Sony Reader - ie the fact that the US is the only country in which it's officially sold - but that doesn't ease the sense of irritation, on occasions
. Whereas those of us in Europe are used to thinking in terms of international markets, there does seem to be a tendency for many American companies to be a little "parochial" and regard international sales as something strange and exotic.