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This is an incredibly narrow view of the world. There are billions in China and India alone without even counting Africa. If you don't believe Google wants th
by nicpottier 15y ago
This is an incredibly narrow view of the world. There are billions in China and India alone without even counting Africa. If you don't believe Google wants those eyes then you haven't been paying attention to how much effort they have been putting into Africa.
And no, you can't build this stuff in userland. Everybody could go install Cyanogen on their handset, but that's obviously not tenable for the general consumer.
- ravimc 15y agoIf anyone in India and China needed this, they would have written it by now. This toolkit thingy is not used in India AFAIK
- potatolicious 15y ago> "If anyone in India and China needed this, they would have written it by now. " This is a puzzling concept. If there's a need for a product, it would've already been created? By that definition, we should just shut down HN, since there is no more need for startups! Why waste our time here when every piece of software with significant demand has already been written by somebody else? Goofing around aside, there is a lot of Ameri-centricity in both iOS and Android. For one thing, I cannot believe Apple is shipping the iPhone in Japan without a QR code reader. The whole "translate it and ship it" attitude to globalizing products is a poor one, and explains why some scrappy locals can often take on big, cash-flush corporations.