The US and EU markets would have been forced to keep using the old system, which is what they ended up doing. They assumed they were about to switch over to the

The US and EU markets would have been forced to keep using the old system, which is what they ended up doing. They assumed they were about to switch over to the new system in a few weeks, so my system would be of no use to them. Why switch to my Plan B if Plan A was just around the corner? They continued assuming the Plan A was about a month or two away for two years. The Asian locales had no old system to fall back on, so when Plan A didn't ship and I revealed my (fully localized) Plan B, they adopted it immediately. If I hadn't done my Plan B, the Asians would have had to go back to product registration by postcard.