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I believe it‘s rather an issue with the size of the market. It‘s just so much easier to internationalize when you are already the dominant player in the world‘s
by sveme 6y ago
I believe it‘s rather an issue with the size of the market. It‘s just so much easier to internationalize when you are already the dominant player in the world‘s largest market, the US. Scales matter, see China.
- d_silin 6y agoEU is not a small market, but lack of unified culture/language is a bit of limitation.
- skohan 6y agoI see no reason a web-based product of European origin could not succeed in the US or Chinese markets. TikTok for example has done phenomenally in western markets despite the large cultural differences the development team likely has from many of their users.
- solarkraft 6y agoI see 2 (but am not sure how problematic they really are on a larger scale): The GDPR and upcoming upload filters/required user identification due to the copyright reform.
- skohan 6y agoWould those affect a european-based company hosting and serving users in the US or Asia? US-based companies face the same challenges when trying to reach European customers, so this is an equal playing field as far as I can tell.
- konschubert 6y agoI think it’s very hard to launch a product in a foreign market without validating it in a domestic market first.
- ben_w 6y agoIndeed, Skype is an example of this.
- yholio 6y agoThe EU fought hard to create a single market, but the language, cultural and market fragmentation is still strong. It exists to some degree in the US (see for example Tesla's plight with protectionist dealership laws). But at least you don't need completely separate marketing, product branding and distribution in each state. If support and language is an issue, the complexity of EU business explodes. The linguistic bureaucracy of the EU Parliament is a good example, it makes the whole process 4x more expensive and cumbersome.
- konschubert 6y agoLanguage is still an incredible barrier between cultures.
- renewiltord 6y agoThe single market implementation is completely bogus. That's not anyone's fault. It's just that laws that restrict are contravariant against the interface. So European Parliament decides that everyone should have something that meets at least something, so everyone has a piece that meets that something and then more in whichever way they like. But that makes the interface useless to build against. So you meet the German version and the French version and then let all the rinkydink economies like Greece just use those. US laws leave a lot less to the imagination, they are hyper-constrained in general, and there's a large body of work on how to bypass them. Like, Romania may use GDPR to hunt down journalists and company bosses but you know California won't use CCPA that way, so you're cool.