Apple leaving UK behind again?

With Macworld approaching fast some great announcements are sure to be on the cards, but will this lead to Apple leaving its UK and other laptop batteries non-US customers lagging behind?

With the previous announcements of the iTunes Music Store, the addition of TV Shows and most recently the iPhone, we here in the UK have had to wait months, sometimes years, for the requisite deals laptop battery to be made to bring these offerings to our shores. In fact in the case of movies on iTunes were still waiting.

So the question is, with movie rentals rumored for the keynote will non-US countries be left out again? I know all these delays arent really down to Apple, but more the record labels, movie studios and mobile phone companies. I only hope that any deals that need to be made in relation to any announcements will be quicker than those its taking to get movies and tv shows on iTunes here.