Probably because again, they don't gain anything from cutting their own direct sales in favour of pretty much anything else. They don't look at a local market o

Probably because again, they don't gain anything from cutting their own direct sales in favour of pretty much anything else. They don't look at a local market of a single country, but mostly at the global market, which is what you have to do at Apple-scale. Sure, their 'home country' gets extra attention because the people that make the corporate choices live there so they will be inherently biased, but that's mostly just resulting in launch priority for products, marketing and locations for physical things like meetings, events, buildings etc. The production lines, money and most customers are everywhere except the starting country.