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The Strange Nature of the Nigerian App Market
zacharye writes "With 100 million mobile subscribers, Nigeria stands among leading mobile markets in the world. Its mobile content sector is quite fascinating — this is a market where $100 apps can debut at the No.3 position on Apple's list of top iOS apps. Bible and Quran apps are a major feature of the Nigerian mobile content market. The evergreen 'Message Bible' was launched globally in December 2009 at almost the same time as 'Angry Birds.' While the raging avians achieved greater global success, 'Message Bible' was a smash in Nigeria, recently returning again to No.15 among the top grossing iPhone apps. In the United States, the app didn't even crack the top 600 at its peak."
None conned so easily as the con man, they say.
That I'm right, and you don't like it, doesn't mean I'm a troll.
As Africa's most populous country, it's got millions of mobile subscribers. This is one prime market that's often overlooked as the West focuses on the BRIC markets...
You're talking about a country with a per capita income of only $2,600. Clearly only the top 1% buy these phones and thus the expensive apps.
How do I know this article isn't a Nigerian scam? I aint clickin' on that link, no sir I aint.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
"9 out of the 10 highest-grossing iPhone apps in America are free."
it's clear that americans go for nigerian scams easier than nigerians who like to pay up front.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It's also interesting to see how Africa in general seems to be steadily rising towards a more developed continent. China too is making investments there, and Renault recently launched the continent's largest automotive factory.
1. Buy the dealers app or in-app purchase of insanely priced virtual wares
2. Display as proof
3. Recieve drugs
This market needs better control!
40% of population are Christian and 50% muslin. No surprises as to the fervor of their faith.
"Bible and Quran apps are a major feature of the Nigerian mobile content market."
Worst casual games ever.
That is not correct, though that's a common misconception. The Council of Nicaea did not address the question of which books would be included in the Biblical canon. Rather, it concerned the nature of the relationship between God the Father and his son Jesus--it was a dispute between the followers of Athanasius who finally won out, who asserted that they were different persons, and the followers of Arius, who believed that God and the Son were separate entities. It was, of course, a political struggle, and that particular council was not the final word on the matter. There were messy struggles between the two factions (and several others that cropped up over the years) until the Emperor Theodosius I settled the question essentially by fiat near the end of the 4th century. (It was officially settled by council--but strangely enough, the results of the later councils always seemed to match the theological opinion of the reigning Augustus.)
The books that were taken to be part of the canon were largely settled somewhat earlier by consensus between the "orthodox" Christians--the ones that finally won out. Groups of Christians that disagreed were disenfranchised and exiled before the Council of Nicaea, as a result of the legal battles that ensued after the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity. At that time, the courts had to settle which groups were the actual Christians, and thus officially tolerated, and which were the churches of the false Christians that did not fall under the Edict's orders to restore seized property.
There were no Ecumenical Councils that took a position on the canon until the Council of Trent asserted the canonicity of the so-called "deuterocanonical" books--books in the Old Testament which the new Protestants rejected. The Protestants, of course, continued to reject those books, and so most Protestant Bibles fail to include books like Tobit and 1 and 2 Maccabees.
Easy access to the Bible? You don't want people reading that thing. They'll start to see how wacky it is.