[davidw]

> The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not.

That has always irritated me in its US-centric view of things. They should have kept pushing that phone in Europe, in stores, where it would sit right next to even more expensive iPhone models.

[dagw]

Google is a very US-centric company. Just look at how few countries outside the US can buy and sell apps in their app store. Their whole strategy is all about the US market with some vague hope that the rest of the world will somehow follow by magic.