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Um, how can we be early adopters when it usually takes 3 or more years for the latest tech from US/Japan to reach here?

I do understand why certain tech firms don't release new models (or even as wide a range of models) in Australia as they do in US, Japan or Europe - it's because we don't have the population base to support this sort of market, which the other countries do.

But early adopters? Perhaps 'early adopters' in the sense than when the new tech is available, the uptake on it is faster than in other places, on a per capita basis...