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> Coming later in 2023: Belgium, Taiwan, Italy, Spain Does anybody know why they do this country by country roll out? I'd be perfectly happy to order a US layo
by frankjr 4y ago
> Coming later in 2023: Belgium, Taiwan, Italy, Spain
Does anybody know why they do this country by country roll out? I'd be perfectly happy to order a US layout laptop but they don't allow me to place an order.
- marci 4y agoI would guess figuring out payment, shipping, returns, refunds, warranty...
- OJFord 4y ago..., taxes, consumer protection laws, ... It's probably harder being a US company selling into each EU country than it is for an EU-based company to sell to the rest of the EU and also the US, too? The alternative would be not selling directly to consumer, using some intermediary like Amazon or whatever.
- brucethemoose2 4y agoOr be a reselling manufacturer like Clevo, and let local companies deal with that stiff.
- cristiioan 4y agoI don't think is that harder. Also, my Framework(bought in Austria and than shipped it to Romania - still in EU) was actually sold by a company registered in Germany.
- fuzzbazz 4y agoMaybe they'd have a lot of extra returns if people from these countries didn't pay attention and bought a laptop expecting the usual keyboard layout for their languages.
- nrp 4y agoWe wrote a blog post a couple of years ago about what goes into launching into new countries: https://frame.work/blog/scaling-up-infrastructure https://frame.work/blog/scaling-up-infrastructure
- jessikat 4y agoI'm kind of surprised that New Zealand isn't available when Australia is. We tend to share a lot of regulatory standards and such.
- fomine3 4y agoI suspect that Taiwan is because it's where Framework is built