Hacker News with Generative AI: Emerging Markets

Can 4G feature phones rise again on QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? (theregister.com)
It's hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240 resolution, but Shioupyn Shen thinks precisely such devices are about to bring millions of people to the web in a new way.
The most surprising tech champions of 2024 (restofworld.org)
Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based walkie-talkie app that proved unexpectedly popular in Kenya are some of Rest of World’s most surprising winners in global tech in 2024.
The missing middle: firms in developing countries (asteriskmag.com)
The central question of development economics is simple: how can poor countries become rich?