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0 pointsscarface744y ago0 comments

By 2009, mobile was clearly the future. But the phones were underpowered and didn’t run web pages well. Even today, most of the world is browsing the internet on low end phones where the web provides a sub par experience.

Desktop penetration is lower outside of the US. Aren’t Internet cafes still a thing in much of the world because people don’t have computers at home?

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cheriot4y ago

I think internet cafe's are pretty old school everywhere now. Anecdotally, much of the developing world leapfrogged the US on mobile/fintech. People had low end smart phones and banked with their phone carriers 5+ years ago in East Africa.

Latest anecdote (this week) is not seeing internet cafe's in Belize and government PSA's say to contact them on whatsapp.

That said, Facebook makes their money in rich countries.

scarface74OP4y ago

I’m an ignorant American, you mean what I see on 90 Day Fiancé is not representative of the rest of the world?

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