why would anyone in europe buy a phone that is not 3G? That would be like us buying a macbook pro that only supported dial up internet.
No, it's more like a computer that supports Ethernet-100 but not Gigabit Ethernet.
Now, for me, that's a deal-breaker. Any computer I buy has to have gigabit as I'm constantly copying 15 to 20 GB DV files all the time. But for most people, gigabit just isn't needed very often. For those people it just doesn't matter. I'm betting that those users outnumber me when it comes to laptops.
Now, I have NO CLUE how often people use 3G on their phones. I don't even have a 'net enabled cell phone myself. But I'm betting that maybe...just maybe...Apple has looked into it and figured out how often people use 3G on their phones. It looks to me like they've decided people don't use it enough to worry about it quite yet. Just because everyone HAS it doesn't mean they USE it.
I mean, on the one hand we have a multi-billion dollar company basing a huge new product line on what they think, and on the other hand we have people on the internet saying what they think.
No offense, but I'm betting the multi-billion dollar companty put a LITTLE bit more thought into this than you did.