Why do internet services always seem to be more expensive in the UK? Surely they should be able to be provided at approximately the same cost as the US.<p>For example, Steam games are consistently well above the US price + 20% for VAT.<p>Netflix is £5.99 a month, which is over ten USD.<p>I'm sure there are many more examples.
Spotify Philippines is super cheap. But I didn't realized how cheap it really is until I saw the site. I think they just launched last month with a really low price. Spotify Premium here in PH only costs 129 pesos[1]. How cheap is it?<p>Today, <i>$1 = P44.28</i> so <i>P129 is just $2.91</i>.<p>Of course it was adjusted with the market value here in PH. It was really a good deal. They also partnered with the telcos here to boost their presence. And I think, they don't have much competition here in PH.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.rappler.com/technology/news/55045-spotify-philippines-launch" rel="nofollow">http://www.rappler.com/technology/news/55045-spotify-philipp...</a>
Nice.<p>It might be better for the upper map to select a colour scale that has a zero point on it - this would represent countries that have the same price as the dollar.<p>A diverging colour scale would make it easier to distinguish which countries are cheaper and which are more expensive. For example:<p><a href="http://colorbrewer2.org/?type=diverging&scheme=BrBG&n=7" rel="nofollow">http://colorbrewer2.org/?type=diverging&scheme=BrBG&n=7</a>
It'll never cease to amaze me that all these countries, including many underdeveloped countries, get to have great internet services such as Spotify, but somehow Canada is never one of those.<p>There's something seriously wrong with this country...