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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.


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.




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