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Of course the majority of discussions are US-centric when most major websites & apps started in the US, because it is/was the largest economy, and it's the largest primary English-speaking population in the world, and has a pretty high rate of Internet access and usage of those particular kinda of sites & apps.

There's also the fact that what the US is just more important than other countries by virtue of being such a huge chunk of the global economy. What happens in the US has repercussions to people that live in other countries in a way that is much less true of almost every other country in the world.

If the US had a population of 70M and the UK had a population of 340M and the GDPs were reversed - it would be the other way around.

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Even if most major websites & apps started in the US this is a problem, because they're thinking is deeply limited, they think small, they think United States, when their reach and audience is fundamentally every country on Earth, instead of one or a small handful.

The number of times, on UK websites or US websites, something is advertised as "Coming in Spring 2024", it baffles me. What months happen to be defined as "Spring" is dependant on which hemisphere of the planet you happen to be on.

It's parochial and wierd.

But there’s no reason the rest of the world has to use the same web sites. It’s “parochial and weird” to expect that everything on the internet will be tailored for every country automatically.

The rest of the world sometimes has to use the same websites.

I live in Australia. I listen to a series of audio dramas created in the UK. They have a website, and sell and promote their releases there. This is the source of information about these items. And when they say "Coming Spring 2024" they are not thinking about their global audience, and I can't get any information about these releases from other websites.

It's parochial and wierd to use an arbitary metric based on what hemisphere you're in and assuming your entire audience is restricted to that hemisphere (or at least, not caring about the others).

It's clear and simple to say "Coming September 2024". That's not tailored for a country, it's tailored for a set of non-geographical overlapping cultures, some of whom might want to give you money.

They kinda do, because in a global market there tends to be a single global market leader. There aren't a hundred different per-country Spotify (a Swedish company!) clones, for example.

Not sure why this comment is downvoted. It works the same even within the United States. There are 50 of them after all despite all conversation focusing on Florida, California, and Texas. We all know San Francisco and Austin but I couldn't name much more than that with a gun to my head despite knowing there must be dozens of cities in each of those states.

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