1. We have a large homgoneous market where you can build a product and it’s expected it can succeed for hundreds of millions of Americans
2. EU is the easiest second market, and another step change of hundreds of millions of customers in a somewhat unified market
3. there’s not an easy 3rd economy that replaces EUs wealth, population, and comfort with English + technology
When we piss everyone off in the EU tech company growth gets kneecapped and limited to US / Canada. Theres not an easy market to expand to without much deeper focus on that specific market and its needs, for much fewer returns.
I was making hardware at one point, and it took less than a day to decide that Europe was not getting our product.
The regulations were insane.
I imagine software is significantly easier, but there is a mountain of difference when it comes to electrical and plumbing.
If you are unwilling to follow regulations to sell your hardware here, then it tells me the regulations are already doing its job properly.
It was good enough for the US.
A lot of things good enough for the US are not considered suitable or safe here.
Correctly so, I might add.
If your government is not concerned with public safety, why should the EU adopt the same stance?
Hope you don't accidentally fall off a historical ledge that can't get a handrail.