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US customers are more important?
by amichail 17y ago
US customers are more important?
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- dsplittgerber 17y agoIt's an interesting business decision: Developing/Penetrating a (perhaps the most important world-wide) market deeply is more important to them than opening up new markets sooner rather than later.
- ttjervaag 17y agoIt's the usual modus operandi as far as Apple is concerned. Non-US Apple users and developers like me are getting used to this by now but it is nonetheless quite disappointing.
- vaporstun 17y agoWith all due respect, Apple is a US company, so giving preference to their homeland is hardly unconscionable.
- goatforce5 17y agoIt also helps that the US is a large market with lots of people with disposable income. But make no mistake: if they thought they could make more money(/it was better for the business) to launch it somewhere else first, that's where it would have happened.
- cmelbye 17y agoWhat makes you think that? Just because they don't have it available to the entire world on day 1 means that US customers are more important?
- MWinther 17y agoThe US market should be a good indicator on how many units will be sold in other regions, I suppose. Plus sending over a few thousand units to Europe would probably just increase frustration about it not being available when they were sold out. I guess it takes a while to set up a supply chain for a new product that they had no idea about how many people would go for.