"Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?"
As someone living in the US, I can only imagine the frustration people must feel not having access to content in their home countries. It would drive me nuts as well.
But as someone working at a company who also tries very, very hard to make services available to people around the world (the goal is 100% coverage) I also know how hard/impossible it is to negotiate with the rights holders in every nation simultaneously.
So services like Rdio or Vdio need to make a very tough choice: delay their launch, perhaps for years, perhaps forever, to negotiate the rights in all ~200 countries and territories in the world, or launch in the biggest markets first, and hope and try to iterate from there.
I don't know if there even is a right answer. But I do know for sure that it's not Rdio/Vdio's choice not to launch globally. They want it the other way, too.
(As an aside, the phrase "geo-tarded" doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps use "geo-challenged", which says the same thing without the additional connotations.)
As someone living in the US, I can only imagine the frustration people must feel not having access to content in their home countries. It would drive me nuts as well.
But as someone working at a company who also tries very, very hard to make services available to people around the world (the goal is 100% coverage) I also know how hard/impossible it is to negotiate with the rights holders in every nation simultaneously.
So services like Rdio or Vdio need to make a very tough choice: delay their launch, perhaps for years, perhaps forever, to negotiate the rights in all ~200 countries and territories in the world, or launch in the biggest markets first, and hope and try to iterate from there.
I don't know if there even is a right answer. But I do know for sure that it's not Rdio/Vdio's choice not to launch globally. They want it the other way, too.
(As an aside, the phrase "geo-tarded" doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps use "geo-challenged", which says the same thing without the additional connotations.)