It's unfortunately a machine translation, because I haven't found any English-speaking media talking about this yet. If I find any better link about the same event, I will link it.
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As a Czech resident, it is discouraging to see Google show that you can build a futuristic home using Google products, but Google will not be bothered to make such products available to Central/Eastern Europeans -- and it's likely the same for any other country that's outside Western Europe and North America.
It's not just google. Try ordering something from Amazon when you're in Romania or a 100 other examples.
For some of these I can see a distant justification in increased risk of fraud (but they should then work harder on mitigating that fraud), for others I can see no justification at all.
Yea never even bothered ordering things online in Romania the internet is probably the best in Europe but very few western companies offer anything there.
Luckily you can always order stuff and have it delivered to a western address then have it hand shipped trough connection to Eastern Europe for a fee.
Or just move to west Europe. Still miss the speed though.
It's not much better in Western Europe either. The odd limited choice of Nexus models long after launch in the US and maybe a Chromecast if you're lucky.
I've taken to completely ignoring news about Google hardware products, since outside the US they are about as relevant as news about in-n-out burger.
This, plus Google's retarded approach to geo-location, language and it's arrogance towards non-American ideas (and laws!) concerning privacy makes Google a surprisingly non-internationally oriented company.
Companies like Apple and Microsoft are fully international, Amazon is making a serious effort to get there, but Google barely seems to make an effort.
Czechs are perfect consumers - they accept mass surveillance without questions and have no idea about privacy, very good brave new citizens! Everybody uses Facebook doubtlessly and they happily run into every marketing campaign. They are willing to accept ridicolously low wages and accept the total replacement of their traditional markets by monopolized global company infrastructures, as long as you give them some little gimmick for free. This is a great country for big companies experimenting with a spineless, noncritical crowd that made it their sweetest praise to immitate US non-culture. 50 years of communism made them disciplined and hungry for products (yes, collecting empty packages of western products was a wide-spread pseudo-religious rite) and 20 years of full-force marketing with media-bombardement did brainwash them into total obedience while still believing this is "freedom". A perfect playground for testing the future of a consumerist police-state.
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As a Czech resident, it is discouraging to see Google show that you can build a futuristic home using Google products, but Google will not be bothered to make such products available to Central/Eastern Europeans -- and it's likely the same for any other country that's outside Western Europe and North America.
For some of these I can see a distant justification in increased risk of fraud (but they should then work harder on mitigating that fraud), for others I can see no justification at all.
Luckily you can always order stuff and have it delivered to a western address then have it hand shipped trough connection to Eastern Europe for a fee.
Or just move to west Europe. Still miss the speed though.
This, plus Google's retarded approach to geo-location, language and it's arrogance towards non-American ideas (and laws!) concerning privacy makes Google a surprisingly non-internationally oriented company.
Companies like Apple and Microsoft are fully international, Amazon is making a serious effort to get there, but Google barely seems to make an effort.