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I'm sorry to disagree so bluntly, but: you are incorrect; they did, and they still do cut whole subregions out. Example: Google has a Google (web)Store in 17 E
by theodric 2y ago
I'm sorry to disagree so bluntly, but: you are incorrect; they did, and they still do cut whole subregions out.
Example:
Google has a Google (web)Store in 17 European countries [1] (including the UK and Switzerland), thus 15 of 27 EU countries, and that number does not include the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania.
You can buy a Pixel in NL today, but you couldn't in 2019, even though Google had a web store there, because they didn't offer the product line in NL. I don't live in NL anymore, so I can't tell you what still isn't available there, but manufacturers refusing to bother with minority countries or languages (Dutch: "only" 24 million speakers in Europe) is and will continue to be a factor that prevents products from being localized and therefore offered in certain markets, European single market or not. Estonia has a population of ~1.3 million, so I can't imagine it's at the top of Google's priority list.
[1] https://store.google.com/regionpicker https://store.google.com/regionpicker