How does it take a year for a product to become available in markets that can afford it, in a globalised world? Not to become available, I mean? Switzerland has the highest per capita income of just about anywhere, and you still can't buy an iPhone here.

I begin to understand why Rupert Murdoch calls Apple "slow and limited" in the corporate sense. For ten years you couldn't buy an Apple unless you lived next to one of three Apple stores, and now it has taken them a year to lose the interest of the richest part of the western European market. Apple make wonderful products (as Murdoch also remarked) but they are very far from being an inspiring business model.