Re: Google payment plans

On 10 Apr 2014 at 13:29:51, Anders Rundgren (anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com) wrote:

My own take on the strategy thing is skipping North America and the EU since their 
payment systems are extremely dated while the vendors have planted a virtual mine-field 
of patents to make it difficult for possible "newcomers". However, these patents are 
not respected in China, South America, Africa, etc. giving you a lot of advantages, 
not to mention that the market is 5-10 times bigger in terms of users. 

As you probably agree on, such considerations are _way_ outside what a traditional 
SDO like W3C could do. 


While I agree with your assertion of the status of the US and EU markets, your statement concerning the other markets, especially Africa, aren’t quite correct. Fragmentation and an accerlated beauracratic apparatus made Africa fairly difficult as an entry point for newcomers, especially non-local ones. That’s why the big telcos enter the market there by way of buying into it, not building new things. 

– Igor