[toomuchtodo]

Okay, but I'm in the US and the US has ~300 million people (vs 500 million spread throughout the EU).

What happens in the EU doesn't always effect the US, and vice versa.

[walshemj]

You mean the USA has non standard tech/standards and companies have to produce two SKU's one for export one for home - you fail production engineering 101.

The fiasco over not implementing GSM like the rest of the developed world did is a good example - less NIH might help.