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I strongly disagree. In my experience, people are more than willing to pay for a service that they view as valuable, regardless of where they live. But understa
by abannin 11y ago
I strongly disagree. In my experience, people are more than willing to pay for a service that they view as valuable, regardless of where they live. But understanding the value proposition is key. You'll need to find ways to engage users at lower price points in those geos. Your users are spending money, you just need to convince them to spend it on you.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoI live in the third world. The greatest obstacle to paying for apps I like was never the money (compared with the smartphone, good apps are cheap), but the payment method. Banks hate poor people and we hate them back, so not many people have internationally valid credit cards where I live.
- tashmahalic 11y agoWhat payment methods do you like?
- saint_fiasco 11y agoI like the debit card from my credit union, but nobody outside my country would accept it because it's not affiliated to any payment network like Visa or Master Card. Other popular payment methods are mobile payment networks provided by the same companies that provide the cell phone service. It's a pre-paid phone service that lets you use your phone credit (that which originally only let you buy talk minutes and text messages) and transfer it to a different phone number. Lots of people accept it as actual currency, and you can even pay utilities with that.