I live in Australia. We don't really have those problems here.
And your entire "price is the most important factor" has been disproven so many times by Apple et al that you just look stupid for bringing it up. Cheap tablets already exist and yet Apple still sold 3 million iPads in 3 days.
People will pay a premium to get the best, but apple isn't clearly the best anymore (except in terms of apps selection, and as app devs will go where the market is, apple may lose this advantage as well).
3 million devices in 3 days might be more impressive from someone else at this point. There are a lot of people that will line up to buy a new iPad even though they just bought the previous iPad a week ago.
And your entire "price is the most important factor" has been disproven so many times by Apple et al that you just look stupid for bringing it up. Cheap tablets already exist and yet Apple still sold 3 million iPads in 3 days.