• akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I lived in Togo for 2 years and I noticed this. My go-to example was music: they skipped records, 8 tracks, cassette tapes, cds, and everyone went straight to having music on their phone.

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      2 months ago

      In second-world countries like mine, we didn’t skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:

      • Betamax VHS
      • MiniDisc USB flash storage, SD cards
      • iTunes YouTube and pirated MP3s
      • HD DVD Blu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for most
      • Game consoles PC because it’s cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)

      If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we’re no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.

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      2 months ago

      When I was in Benin there was quite a flourishing market in CDs (this was in 2002)

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      2 months ago

      Similar with banking and mobile internet for much of Africa. Why get a landline when mobile exists. Much of less developed asia, too.