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by notatoad 3724 days ago
I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US.

It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.

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No, it's like what's actually true - that they don't think about those places and therefore do things like write slogans with the mindset that such people don't exist.
Even more likely: whoever wrote that copy isn't the same person as whoever decided on the geo-locking policy.
Google still loves doing this with Chromebooks. They have human-translated marketing websites for the Pixel in Norway and their buy button is just greyed out.