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Lol so that’s why I can’t use it. I thought it strange that Norway wasn’t part of the 180 countries. Goes to show how much Google values saving face over being

Lol so that’s why I can’t use it. I thought it strange that Norway wasn’t part of the 180 countries. Goes to show how much Google values saving face over being honest with its users. Pathetic.

xiphias2 3y ago
Maybe it's time to stop thinking that some countries are better then others and just treat them as different. Your sense of privilege with ,,lol'' means that you consider people in Norway more important than in other countries.
- skilled 3y ago
  Maybe you shouldn’t reach so hard. I am not even from Norway. Couldn’t care less if they only released it in Uzbekistan.
Colex 3y ago
It is a very valid strategy. If you do not have all the controls in place to comply with the burdensome requirements of the EU law (if that's the case), then why should you stop from releasing the service in other markets that do not impose such requirements? A lot of comments here have a sense of entitlement that does not make too much sense to me, especially towards a private company doing a first release of a product. (PS: I live in the EU as well)
- prepend 3y ago
  They should have used chatgpt to develop their controls. OpenAI figured out how to do it. It’s weird when a company with Googles resources flubs their rollout. They have a main competitor. Their main competitor does something. They launch with not doing something. Typically, a company wants to launch with doing something better than their competitor.
  - Colex 3y ago
    Just to clarify, I'm not commenting on whether it's a good strategy or not, or whether they are doing a great job or not. I just find it weird some comments in this topic accusing of being "malignant" or feeling like Google owes them to have released in the EU. I guess they might just want to launch something as quick as possible as a response to OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership. And this knee-jerk reaction left them with gaps they haven't had the time to fix without being very late to the party. All speculation though.

Lol so that’s why I can’t use it. I thought it strange that Norway wasn’t part of the 180 countries. Goes to show how much Google values saving face over being honest with its users. Pathetic.

xiphias2 3y ago

Maybe it's time to stop thinking that some countries are better then others and just treat them as different. Your sense of privilege with ,,lol'' means that you consider people in Norway more important than in other countries.

skilled 3y ago
Maybe you shouldn’t reach so hard. I am not even from Norway. Couldn’t care less if they only released it in Uzbekistan.

Colex 3y ago

It is a very valid strategy. If you do not have all the controls in place to comply with the burdensome requirements of the EU law (if that's the case), then why should you stop from releasing the service in other markets that do not impose such requirements? A lot of comments here have a sense of entitlement that does not make too much sense to me, especially towards a private company doing a first release of a product. (PS: I live in the EU as well)

prepend 3y ago
They should have used chatgpt to develop their controls. OpenAI figured out how to do it. It’s weird when a company with Googles resources flubs their rollout. They have a main competitor. Their main competitor does something. They launch with not doing something. Typically, a company wants to launch with doing something better than their competitor.
- Colex 3y ago
  Just to clarify, I'm not commenting on whether it's a good strategy or not, or whether they are doing a great job or not. I just find it weird some comments in this topic accusing of being "malignant" or feeling like Google owes them to have released in the EU. I guess they might just want to launch something as quick as possible as a response to OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership. And this knee-jerk reaction left them with gaps they haven't had the time to fix without being very late to the party. All speculation though.