You don't need it, doesn't mean that people won't use it now or in the future if its there.
Absolutely, i was only responding to the idea of converting their whole lineup of consoles to include it. I think its smart and almost necessary for them to have one SKU with it (or offer a cable), I just dont see the need for them to change all of them. Besides it would bring them 5 or 10 further away from their 199 or 149 price becuase i dont think they can scrap the multi a/v out and replace it with HDMI, theyll probably need both.
I think Sony actually did them a favor by introducing a SKU without HDMI, it validated their strategy somewhat.
Probably because it would have caused delays and there have been a number of revisions out there.
Unless you know someting i dont (which is clearly possible) i dont see why HDMI 1.1 was already "in the wild" when the 360 was released.