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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by antirez on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:47AM (#16686509)
We non-US people will never understand this, sorry. Instead of staying in a single cross-platform system US people prolonged for other ~5 years the use of SMS that was non existing here for a long time, also paying the highest costs in the world per SMS more or less (AFAIK you used to pay even for receiving), and now are picking OS-specific platforms.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by nness on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:40AM (#16686744)
Also true for banking — The prominence of Apple and Android Pay is a direct response to the U.S. banking industries anti-competitive prices and poor adoption of global standards. Broadly speaking, Europe and SEA had contactless EMV chip payments well before the vendor-specific smartphone solutions.
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