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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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.