From the colour of your post i can tell that a lot of people disagree with you. I know you are just trying to give everyone google's prespective, but you should

From the colour of your post i can tell that a lot of people disagree with you. I know you are just trying to give everyone google's prespective, but you should reconsider. You raise the point that maybe there are legal issues, or trade laws etc that prevent google's growth to other economic markets. Well there are workarounds, if google bothers looking for them. For example, they find that the economic service they are using to pay devs, is not available in country X. they do a little research and find that skrill (formerly moneybookers) is available in country X, and it is also available in their country. They get in touch with skrill and work something out to be able to pay in country X. I cant imagine a law that says they cant contact services which are legally allowed to do transactions from your country to country X. Yes, i buy the reason that google itself may not be allowed, but it certainly can employ other services to do that for them. That's what channels are for! PS: having EU HQ in ireland and not being legally allowed to pay people in ireland? that makes zero sense