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Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.
by saubeidl 11mo ago
Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.
- unmole 11mo agoThis is innumerate bordering on the delusional.
- saubeidl 11mo agoThe EU consists of roughly 500M well-off consumers, the US of roughly 300M. Maybe not quite double, but almost.
- pianom4n 11mo agoAnd a GDP 2/3 the size. And way less than that by disposable income. Even users from "rich" EU countries are worth ~30% of a US user to most companies.
- saubeidl 11mo agoDoesn't matter. Rich enough to afford most products, as pretty much the only market other than the US. And more people. Biggest addressable market for most things.
- lm28469 11mo agoSo what? Even people living in poor EU countries buy iphones, use windows, watch Netflix If the market was at best 1/3rd of the US no one would bother implementing all these regulations
- unmole 11mo agoAnd yet Apple, Microsoft and Netflix make significantly more revenue from the US than the EU. It's almost as if the EU is not actually a bigger market.