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In this path, people would be interacting with games/content in Facebook "apps" that are effectively mobile web pages. Facebook would have control inside their
by cheriot 5y ago
In this path, people would be interacting with games/content in Facebook "apps" that are effectively mobile web pages. Facebook would have control inside their garden.
As soon as any Facebook app convinced a user to pay, all other facebook apps would have a seamless checkout.
Getting user financials isn't easy but we've seen the rise of Venmo, Robinhood, and Neobanks since then so it's doable.
- scarface74 5y agoBy 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?
- cheriot 5y agoI 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.
- scarface74 5y agoI’m an ignorant American, you mean what I see on 90 Day Fiancé is not representative of the rest of the world?