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zavi · 2018-08-15 10:30:06+00:00

Most users are outside of the US for these companies.

pnt12 | karma 820 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2021-07-30 02:31:38

The article says the USA is their biggest market, with about 20% of the users and revenue.

croes | karma 17146 | avg karma 3.11 · | 2021-10-09 05:45:03

It maybe few countries but many users

mrmlz | karma 98 | avg karma 1.2 · | 2022-11-08 02:39:36

And also a lot of people outside the US uses SMS.

znpy | karma 10741 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2023-12-07 03:24:20

are you talking about individual users or the whole aggregate?

because if the former, then users from asia likely are largely outnumbering users from the USA

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ulfw | karma 4213 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2018-06-06 08:48:56

Do you think the majority of Apple's, Google's, Microsoft's etc. users are not also outside of the US?? US Population is 325 MM vs 7300 MM outside the US

triyambakam | karma 2392 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2023-07-06 03:08:12

User base if the West, but not predominantly the world

madh | karma 1223 | avg karma 5.39 · | 2009-08-04 05:37:04+00:00

I agree. I also believe that more devices are outside the U.S.

TremendousJudge | karma 2596 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2021-06-28 18:35:47

computer usage is very different outside the US

emptyfile | karma 1481 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2022-02-03 02:53:20

3 times less users then any of the others. Most of those in english speaking countries.

nodesocket | karma 6215 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2019-06-04 05:23:29+00:00

Fair, but I have friends on the west coast who were similarly impacted, while I am in the South. So it seems inaccurate to say it impacted a small number of users. Maybe compared to world wide, but I would imagine the US is the biggest market.

switch007 | karma 4828 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2019-09-23 06:51:39+00:00

Except the 600,000 customers currently abroad

lmm | karma 42440 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2016-04-06 10:40:24

The question isn't really what country they're from though. How many of those users can't speak English?

simonklitj | karma 344 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2017-09-13 06:49:09+00:00

Any idea why people outside the US use this feature more often?

troupo | karma 2477 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2024-06-18 12:22:14

They launched in 7 countries before launching in the US. In the same year as they launched in the US they also launched in 4 other countries.

In 2012, after their "expansion" in the US they had five times as many paying users outside the US as in the US.

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pmorici | karma 12372 | avg karma 3.51 · | 2014-04-17 12:44:46

Yahoo mail is very very popular outside the US.

dtech | karma 7667 | avg karma 3.82 · | 2021-09-01 04:20:42

They are often mentioned in these context, along with Spotify, Adyen, SAP and a few others. It doesn't really fit the US-based narrative so is mostly ignored.

kuschku | karma 11518 | avg karma 1.46 · | 2016-05-02 18:44:42+00:00

If half of them would work outside of the US, people would already be happy. DO’s usability goes down a lot if you don’t have a credit card (you literally pay to be able to pay), and Twilio is quite similar.

raiyu | karma 4107 | avg karma 6.23 · | 2019-10-23 06:47:35+00:00

Over 80% of the new acquired users are international, not the in the US, where the percentage of Android is much higher. So it's definitely having an impact.

The downside for most social networks is that the revenue generated from non-US users is much lower than US.

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davidedicillo | karma 6148 | avg karma 5.25 · | 2011-06-22 13:22:02+00:00

The main problem of other markets outside the US is their propension to download only free apps.