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Companies like google are quite well equiped to launch anything globally.

And in this specific case, its a Chess demo, its probably something different



It is very annoying at most big techs to go through launch approval for something all new and adding yet another approved or checklist for the EU is not worth the tradeoff of time for something experimental/early.


Big companys should just have a basic department handling this without much overhead.


That department becomes the overhead every time since it imposes requirements or work on the team doing the actual creation. They make the teams building the product make changes or answer questions and “gate” releases. Every time you add someone extra things slow down if their whole job is related to reducing risk. Misaligned incentives.


We talk about google not some small company which never faced this issue.

Allowing of a global login, SDK and default workflows would make it very easy to comply to everything.


I have worked at multiple of the FAANGs. I know quite well how much overhead these kind of releases take and how much overhead any centralized release team made to “help” end up adding. It’s not just a few small things that you mention.




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