> Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?
Rdio, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Movie/TV Store, Netflix, Amazon's digital services, etc were all unavailable in Canada on launch and successfully rolled out later on.
Canada gets serviced fast compared to the rest of the world.
In (most of) Europe, Rdio has little impact. Same goes for iTunes video. Netflix and Amazon digital are still missing.
iTunes Music is the only exception, but only because of the full weight of Apple and the tie-in with Apple's playback devices.
Canadian bitching about US services being unavailable is a bit of joke if you consider the rest of us are still waiting for Netflix for over a decade. There aren't even any decent alternatives because the copyright mafia makes it impossible.
Netflix? Hahaha, good luck with that anywhere outside Canada, USA or UK. Amazon? The same. No need to describe the rest of them. Same story everywhere. Other countries are just not on their globe.
Rdio, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Movie/TV Store, Netflix, Amazon's digital services, etc were all unavailable in Canada on launch and successfully rolled out later on.