"despite what many Americans may feel, they represent only five per cent of the world's six billion people"

You try and get an American to believe they aren't the centre of the universe. Go on try it.

People raised in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

I grew up learning that the sun never set on the British Empire. We didn't think we were the center of the Universe, we thought we were the universe!

Stop the bashing them. It reeks of jealously and evinces an unjustified inferiority complex. That plus it's just boring.

Cater for a domestic market or think global. If the latter then the LTE/WiMAX battle is over before it has begun. Sprint may well be doing all it can to lay out WiMAX, good for it. But the reality elsewhere is that LTE will be the driver, as GSM is in this day and age. For Apple to ignore that would be to their commercial disadvantage. And Apple are not exactly reknowned for their lack of commercial nous. They learn very quickly, witness how they responded to their near-goof with the original iPhone 2G. They have the sales figures to show what brining out a 3G handset did for them. They'll not be repeating that little exercise in how to ignore the rest of the world again.

We may well see "local editions" for the US market, and that would make some sense. But the rest of the world will see 3G and later 4G (LTE) from Cupertino. Failing that every single other manufacturer will jump into whatever vacuum Apple create by miscalculating this one.

Good luck to AT&T, if they can pull it off they'll have won a major coup. I don't think we'll be seeing a repeat in Europe though.

"The British think they're important because they owned most of the world at some point" How's that again? Because we trounced a bunch of boomarang/stone/spear throwing natives (Australia, Africa, Canada, the Caribbean) with carbines and cannon? That means we are justified in our arrogance? How much of the world today could stand against a marine carrier battle group other than UK, Russia, China, and maybe France? Just as Britain was then, the US is now the ONLY superpower around. So by your logic their entitled to the sense of superiority ascribed. Your supporting the case that people rasied in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but you probably can't see that.

I also live in the US and work for a global company. For the most part Americans are no different than any one else and if you get to know them they're pretty decent people. They seem arrogant to us, as do the French, the Germans, the Japanese, etc. And we seem arrogant to all of them - Platini isn't trying to kick us out of Europe just because the CL always ends as a matchup between ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsnal. They kicked us out once before because we weren't the most humble of guests - remember?

I live here and I like living here (AC 15:54 if you don't like it - go home). But comments like "oh please" just make it harder for ex pats and subjects of England/Britain/UK/Her Majesty's realms and dominions, et al. should not be denouncing others for being arrogant.

Please keep it to the tech. At least there we can be proud since the Iphone is ours, at least according to Gordon ;)