[potatolicious]

> "If anyone in India and China needed this, they would have written it by now. "

This is a puzzling concept. If there's a need for a product, it would've already been created? By that definition, we should just shut down HN, since there is no more need for startups! Why waste our time here when every piece of software with significant demand has already been written by somebody else?

Goofing around aside, there is a lot of Ameri-centricity in both iOS and Android. For one thing, I cannot believe Apple is shipping the iPhone in Japan without a QR code reader.

The whole "translate it and ship it" attitude to globalizing products is a poor one, and explains why some scrappy locals can often take on big, cash-flush corporations.

[lmz]

My Samsung Android phone (running Froyo) has a SIM Toolkit application and it seems to work. If Google doesn't want to do it surely the handset manufacturers can?

[sukuriant]

Why was this downvoted? (note: I'm not potatolicious)