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0 pointsFredPret2y ago0 comments

Why is # of countries or # of people important?

It's the total spending dollars that's important. By using US customary units, you get 25% of the world GDP in one easy-to-do-business-with entity.

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lavela2y ago

Funny how you say total spending and then argue with a percentage but aside from that do you really want to argue that Apple doesn't care about the total spending of, say, India just because they make up a smaller percentage of the world's GDP?

FredPretOP2y ago

> Funny how you say total spending and then argue with a percentage

... so? Total spending is the key factor; Apple gets exposure to 25% of the total human economy by catering to one polity which is also the easiest one to do business in. That's a no-brainer if I've ever heard one.

By contrast, India's economy is only 3% of the world total. [0]

It's interesting to note that this understates US dominance in luxury products - due to being rich-person-friendly, they actually have far more than 25% of the world's rich people - 38% according to page 28 of [1]

Which market would you rather target?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_rec...

[1] https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/glo...

lavela2y ago

How is this an either-or situation if you could just provide an additional internationalization for 'preferred language english' + 'IP outside of US'?

'less than an inch (11.5mm)' would still be a better specification if you want to have a version where you rather err towards US customers.

I'm not offended by seeing inches, just irritated that you wouldn't cater to the rest of the world.

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eviks2y ago

Indeed, it's so hard to cover the other 75% of the world by just changing a few words on a page, and serve it everywhere else. Only one group can win!

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lavela2y ago

FredPretOP2y ago

> Funny how you say total spending and then argue with a percentage

By contrast, India's economy is only 3% of the world total. [0]

Which market would you rather target?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_rec...

[1] https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/glo...

lavela2y ago

How is this an either-or situation if you could just provide an additional internationalization for 'preferred language english' + 'IP outside of US'?

'less than an inch (11.5mm)' would still be a better specification if you want to have a version where you rather err towards US customers.

I'm not offended by seeing inches, just irritated that you wouldn't cater to the rest of the world.

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eviks2y ago

Indeed, it's so hard to cover the other 75% of the world by just changing a few words on a page, and serve it everywhere else. Only one group can win!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse