this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
7 points (100.0% liked)

Aotearoa / New Zealand

1658 readers
27 users here now

Kia ora and welcome to !newzealand, a place to share and discuss anything about Aotearoa in general

Rules:

FAQ ~ NZ Community List ~ Join Matrix chatroom

 

Banner image by Bernard Spragg

Got an idea for next month's banner?

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think when you're at the lower volume, more specialist end of the market it's hard to justify the effort needed to go to all the different countries and learn the rules of selling there. Steam still doesn't sell hardware to NZ (Steam Deck, Index), Framework laptops are not available here, and Google Pixels aren't available. Places normally expand sequentially to big markets. US->Canada->EU->UK->Australia. We don't have the population to pull in anything but the big players (think Apple or Samsung vs Google Pixel).

We actually had Warehouse Stationary stocking the Google Nexus phones that came before the Pixel line, I had a Nexus 4 and 5 back in the day. I remember my wife and I both had Nexus 4s and they both bricked with the same issue, and the shop didn't argue because it was a known issue. Got 18 months of use from a phone then got a refund, so not bad.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess the "why" is explainable, but it's so frustrating haha.