Developing for the next Billion
summary
Research from Berlin plus two years on the ground in Nairobi shows concrete constraints and solutions: average mobile data is 200–300 MB/month (roughly 10 MB/day), many users rely on APK sharing via ShareIt instead of app stores, devices like Tekno behave oddly, images time out, and ride apps trigger phone calls (Taxify/Uber). A small startup, Connta, is built to run stores from basic phones; mobile money MPESA has ~20M active users and wide USSD support. App store rankings misrepresent local penetration.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 7:25Timeline of the Internet
- 13:26Top Downloaded Apps
- 23:03M-Pesa
- 26:52Kenya
- 30:55Store Management Page
- 31:36Choose Your Words Wisely
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