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I'm not going to canvass all Latin American countries, but the median per-capita income for South Africa is about US$500. Are you unwittingly basing your comme
by nknighthb 13y ago
I'm not going to canvass all Latin American countries, but the median per-capita income for South Africa is about US$500.
Are you unwittingly basing your comment on the standards of the still-privileged White minority, comprising less than 9% of a country of just 53 million?
- na85 13y agoRacial politics aside, 5 million people is a lot of potential MS customers.
- nknighthb 13y agoMaybe, but Microsoft/Xbox One was not the relevant subject, Steam was. Am I the only one who actually read the comment I originally replied to? By the way, even the top 10% of South African households have an average income of just US$15,000, so the actual potential customer base is still smaller than you think.
- mncolinlee 13y agoHaving just arrived back from South Africa from visiting my relatives on vacation, I was shocked to find a few highly computer-literate cousins over there who only had a 3G dongle to provide Internet for their entire homes. Another relative had a bandwidth-capped DSL line that was barely faster than ISDN basic rate. Income was not the issue.