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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by ndriscoll on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:52PM (#36880832)
There are apparently 2B English speakers in the world, so you could in principle get away with no internationalization and have 1B users. The other things are more a cost of operating a multi-national business, and not a marginal cost of the software as such. You could also in principle scale to ~300M users (or ~100M households) without worrying about international issues by sticking to the US only.
Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:33PM (#36881545)
Just because someone speaks some English, doesn't mean that they wouldn't prefer to use software in their native language.

Try selling English-only software in Europe and you generally won't get very far.