Target market: Dumb Brits
I spend a considerable amount of time travelling about the UK (and last year, the US), and the sort of people who read MacRumors are so different (that's a compliment) to those who populate a lot of the UK, that they will not comprehend who Facebook appeals to and is used by. If you want an idea, visit any British town centre on a Friday or Saturday night, and you'll see a large quantity of overweight or strangely dressed, not particularly healthy looking females, Blackberry or budget Samsung phone in one hand, checking their whatever it is they check despite being in the presence of real people, prior to getting plastered. And so on.
Such a phone will sell in vast quantities to that demographic, whilst the rest of us exist in a parallel universe, developing technology and services that will help us escape this sorry mess.
If those in the US wonder what on Earth I am on about, come visit, but wrap up well, bring a lot of money (our prices are high due to lack of sustainable energy sources, unlike Germany), and buy a return ticket, because other than our old middle class villages and northern towns, the country is a ***** hole thanks to Facebook and the damage it does to young people and their ability to behave in a constructive honorable fashion.
Long live the SMART phone and it's user.
