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Funny because Apple's money is in Ireland, but not their stores.

Ireland isn't as population dense as many areas. There's only one city with more than 1M people, and only one more with more than 100,000.

Same in Mexico.

There is 1 Apple Store in all the country in a fancy suburb of Mexico City (Santa Fe). Even if you live in Mexico City it might take you 1-2 hours to get there depending on traffic.

Otherwise there are a couple of authorized resellers (iShop, Compudabo, etc) that also give official tech support. It's a real disgrace. I know colleagues that have faulty keyboards and these authorized services have refused to repair the keyboard with the excuse that they cannot reproduce the issue.

I didn't know this was a thing! I'm honestly shocked there aren't any. Did they sign a contract with CompuB or something?

Neither Denmark nor Norway have Apple Stores -- there's actually many prominent (and monied) Western European areas missing.