Whether this is a very bearish take on Apple or a very bullish take on Tizen is probablyarelative question, but Cupertino is unlikely to be manning the lifeboats just yet.
But that leaves another 28m-odd waiting to register, out of a population probably twice that size, most of it in places without the relative efficiency of Kinshasa for running a high-tech electoral system.
And since Poland is arelative laggard in the negotiations, an enlargement that included the Poles would probably have to include quite a few others that might not, under strict criteria, have been in the first intake.
It also can be said, however, that relative to current and recently lowered expectations of future wealth for the middle class, this is probably offering a higher percentage of redistribution than was the case a few years ago or for that matter during the pre-Thatcher British welfare state.