[theDoug]

Yep. Foreign certifications take time, and standards for manufacturing, communication/signal interference, and more vary, but not serving the world as quickly as possible is a bad plan for growth or community enthusiasm.

(Story time: As someone who had to find creative means to get SO many US-only goods into Canada, even ages after their US release, this is terrible with electronics. Shure headphones were the worst, where there was no Canadian distributor, so I ended up special-ordering through an audiology clinic.)

[philliphaydon]

The whole reason I went Windows Phone > Android > iOS was because Microsoft took 17 months to get their latest Lumia phone to singapore. Despite the fact windows phone was used a lot in Asia. Microsoft killed themselves off by not being able to do what Apple can do with world wide release. Now I never see windows phones at all in Asia.