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by chronice70 3150 days ago
Most of China doesn't have internet. I don't know what your definition of sophisticated is.
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Wikipedia has Chinese internet usage at 50.3%, so to be accurate a majority of Chinese people now have internet access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
I think 'internet' includes any one of the services of the big three. That's hardly the internet usage we have in mind.
I don’t imagine internet usage stats show a rosy picture anywhere.
China has 3x as many internet users as the US. India also has more internet users. So yeah, percentage wise they may be lower, but that's still a billion folks between those two countries alone.
Yeah, and rural Indians have to use peer-to-peer networks to download their apps because service is so spotty and expensive. That's materially different from an "internet user" in Western Europe or Japan or the United States.