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The EU isn't really a single market. While Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MS and others were able to start with a single product or service for the entire country,
by xiaoma 17y ago
The EU isn't really a single market. While Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MS and others were able to start with a single product or service for the entire country, they each have many multiple offerings in various EU countries.
You can't just make a quality OS or a website in English and start selling all over Europe. You can do that in the US and be a market leader in every state.
- david927 17y agoA market isn't a language. (And by the way, a "quality OS" that only supports English is a bit of an oxymoron.) The EU has no internal borders; it is a single market on a single currency.
- jrmg 17y agoThat's not actually true. It's [arguably] a single market, but it's not a single currency - large parts of the EU do not use the Euro (Britain, Sweden, Denmark and all of the newer entrants to name a few - it's only I use by 16 of the 27 member states).