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And this trend is to please the market by showing growing numbers of users due to developed countries having reached saturation and even increasing decline in t
by bigbugbag 8y ago
And this trend is to please the market by showing growing numbers of users due to developed countries having reached saturation and even increasing decline in the age range that matters (which lead to buying whatsapp and instagram at insane price tag as a defensive measure akin to panic).
But this growing numbers of users happen to lower the ARPU (average revenue per user) as those users generates almost no revenue and there's no opportunity to change that anytime soon.
There's a reason market capitalization of Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft lost about 1000 billions dollars collectively and about 20% in the recent months.
There is a form of awareness that these companies are overvalued much, that market are saturated and they are going to face the reality in the near future.
Having a lot Africans using facebook is just adding to its operating cost at the moment, economic gains from Africa are going to China. China is taking over Africa's economy at an alarming pace, not facebook.