[chrisseaton]

If customers are paying a premium why would Amazon drop the region? Were the privacy laws too complex for them?

[nawgszy]

I think he means "dropped" as in "the rapper dropped his mixtape today", not as in "the service provider dropped their service due to lack of profitability".

[chrisseaton]

Well that's confusing :) Given your example is out of context and counter-example is perfectly in context.

[nawgszy]

Yes, because I agreed with you that it was perhaps a poor time for a colloquial usage of "dropped" considering that, in the context, it was fairly likely to be interpreted as my counter-example, or your initial interpretation.

I'd like to think my wording was completely unambiguous to make up for any context-switching your brain might have tried to pull on you, and if not I apologize.

[mmanfrin]

Sidenote, this is an example of a contronym, a word that means one thing and the opposite.

[smt88]

"dropped" in this case = "added" or "dropped into place"

[bogomipz]

Think "drop a pin" like in Google maps parlance. To "drop something" is to release something. In that context it's really American hip-hop slang. Although its used widely by the music press when discussing a new release from any type of artist.

A band or artist might be "getting ready to drop something new" - a new single, a new album, video etc.