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- thfuran 3y ago>In these countries, the cost of living tends to be lower, so it makes sense to me that the cost for these services should be lower too It seems likely to me that serving customers in far away developing countries will, if anything, cost more than serving local customers. Communication on support tickets is more likely to run into language or culture barriers, you're more likely to run into obscure edge cases around timezones or poor network connectivity, and serving a foreign market might entail additional legal wrangling.
- _xivi 3y agoIt's a lot like serving remote areas, at the end of the day, it's just different demographic with different conditions and imbalance. The ideal solution to model after I think is banks, local but interconnected system. Amazon is the one of the few companies that managed to scale properly and truely feels "international"