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I cannot think of a legitimate basis to discriminate by country.
basically not all countries speak english as a first language, so it wouldn't make sense to put it in all countries. secondly, staggered rollout is pretty common
I am an American living in Spain, running an American company, paying US taxes. I am neither a Spanish citizen nor a permanent resident. Google decided that my accounts are Spanish and switched them. "Bard is not available in your country". My country is the USA. I wonder what's next, my American Google voice and Google Fi phone numbers so i lose US banking access? Be very scared of this Orwellian company.
> This Google Account isn’t supported > Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18 OpenAI takes my Google Workspace Account just fine. Nice job Google. Locking out a user who is on a >$25 enterprise plan with you. Why is every interaction with Google so stupid? Why can that multi-billion dollar company not deliver any good software?
"Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts [...]" Guess I won't try it then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Bard is not available in your country” Why do they even limit access depending on the country? It’s a chatbot, not a financial service.
I expect this kind of regional lock from Microsoft, not Google. What is going on?
“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country” The waiting list to the waiting list to the waiting list…
I'm always fascinated to understand the "why" when something is allowed in the U.S. but not Canada. Especially so when it's also allowed in the U.K. We're basically a perfect (I'm sarcastically winking here) mix of those two countries! I'm guessing it's purely regulatory?
“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country” The waiting list to the waiting list to the waiting list…
Yeah, I suspect folk who reside in perfectly civilized countries without any geopolitical hindrances to be locked out for a long while--which, given Google's usual inability to reach out across Europe, may mean we'll only have access when it's about to be cancelled.
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Yeah, I suspect folk who reside in perfectly civilized countries without any geopolitical hindrances to be locked out for a long while--which, given Google's usual inability to reach out across Europe, may mean we'll only have access when it's about to be cancelled.
Maybe its to save you from making comments like "I am not going to use any Google product ever, since they canceled Google Reader ..etc etc"
Or as the old saying goes, “if a google product is felled in a forest, and there’s no users to notice, did google really fail?”
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Well, you do have all those French-speaking people going out and about. And all those moose. The UK would have none of that, it would be untidy :)
Actually joking aside, being unable to offer it in French makes some sense as to why they omit a region. Now I want to wander off and find a list of countries where English is the only official language.