We are currently already rolled out in South Africa and will be adding PoPs in two locations in North Africa, and one each in East Africa and West Africa.
The idea is to get good latency coverage across African countries. Once we are rolled out in all those locations we'll be looking at latencies from specific countries to see where we should be adding extra PoPs. The actual locations of our PoPs depends partly on the political geography and partly on the Internet geography. Our goal is minimal latency for maximum population. For example, it might not make sense to have (hypothetical here) a PoP in Ouagadougou if the Internet connectivity to Accra is fantastic, but despite the relative proximity it might turn out that a PoP in Abuja is better than trying to serve Nigeria from Ghana. We'll monitor performance see where we should be.
Thanks for the clarification, and the link. I'm from Zimbabwe, i guess due to our political geography we can wave goodbye to any dreams of a PoP here, lol.
this reminds of a recent episode of Silicon Valley, the eccentric billionaire Hanneman says, "If you show revenue, people will ask how much, and it will never be enough, It’s not about how much you earn but what you’re worth.....”
Initially i didn't see the sense in the Whatsapp acquisition, i think it was purely defensive, as well as the data FB could get their hands on.
I love OneDrive, possiblt the best native synchronization tool out there, at least for Windows anyway. Mine does a funny thing though, whenever i git clone a repo into a folder in OneDrive it will crash. Does that ever happen to you?
26yrs old, Academia (Info Sec), I was in the final year of my BTech Computer Science, i got a scholarship from my Undergrad(UG) university to do my final(4th) year in South Korea as part of an Academic Exchange. The catch was that when i returned upon completion of the exchange i was to work as a TA at my UG university. when i returned i worked there for a year and was sent to do a Master's(Info Sec& CyberForensics) abroad, the catch was that again i had to return and work as Faculty(lecturer) at my UG university. So my career path has been chosen for me in a way.
i would prefer to get into private industry when my contract finishes.
This was because the company behind Ubuntu (Canonical) shut down the service, they didn't go under themselves.
If the cloud infrastrucure is Box's, and they cannot pay the maintenance fees anymore, I would start seriously worrying.
In a way, committing to a company whose main business is cloud storage gives you more guarantees they won't shut down the service out of the blue (since it's their only, or main, source of revenue), while committing to a big company with their eggs in more baskets (MS, Google) gives you more guarantees that if they shut down the service you'll be given some time to react.
i have used each of the ones u mentioned, even used Path Talk, and Kakao Talk, and Wechat, these are very popular in Asia. I always feel they are boated with unnecessary functions. All i want( as well as many people) is to send a message/picture & the ocassional video quickly and efficiently.
If only hangouts was more like the good old google talk. Line is starting to look like a social network, same with Kakao. I don't want stickers i just want no frills messaging.
Whatsapp prides itself as being like SMS, and that's exactly what i want, but without the expensive SMS rates(for us from Africa & Asia)
