> you have to extend this globally if you are planning to expand your market globally. Not necessarily. Quite to the contrary: welcome to the world of those li

> you have to extend this globally if you are planning to expand your market globally. Not necessarily. Quite to the contrary: welcome to the world of those living in soft colonies. Sure, we pay the same premium price for a service that is only a fraction of the kind of service you get in the US[A]. You pay more. World economy and its supporting legal framework is built to naturally shore-up the financial power of western, chiefly USA economies (mostly through petrodollars and entertainment industry, namely AAPL). And the funny thing is, people like it, just like junk TV (this is just for those wishing to downvote this) -- this is how soft dictatures work (sometimes it is not so soft, see "rogue" states). But imagine the rest of the world, were the premium price is mandatory for basic goods, not just "shiny cool" stuff.