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Kingsley Joseph is founder of Petal Flame, a startup focused on innovative mobile social apps.
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SandeepEmbar: @achitnis The key will be how the manufacturers keep the UI different and evolving to keep the users interested.
SandeepEmbar: @achitnis The key will be how the manufacturers keep the UI different and evolving to keep the users interested.
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About 70% of India’s 750M mobile subscribers are active. 91% of Airtel, 90% of Idea+Spice and 76% of Vodafone subscribers are active.
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TheEconomist: Starship Titanic: A thriving hidden society buried deep within a site, where lost travellers inadvertently ended up http://econ.st/gZqDcb
TheEconomist: Starship Titanic: A thriving hidden society buried deep within a site, where lost travellers inadvertently ended up http://econ.st/gZqDcb
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The Biggest Barrier to BOP Tech-Innovation
It’s become cheaper and easier to reach affluent, sophisticated customers thanks to web marketing, than it is to reach rural, poor, uneducated customers through mass media. If you have a product that will benefit the bottom of the pyramid, you will have to spend so much money on marketing and distribution to get the product to them, and communicate its values so they understand it, that the product will then be more expensive than they can afford. It’s no surprise then, that most companies “innovating” in this segment are established players (Nokia, Reliance etc) who can afford to invest and wait for years.
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YouTube - Steve Jobs early TV appearance.mov
Steve Jobs is such a legend, that seeing him in a human, vulnerable moment from his youth, helps me not beat myself up so much for little goof ups.
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"Chennai, Feb 4 (PTI) The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an entity formed by 10 banks in the country, is working with Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) to help customers make basic financial transactions using their mobile phone."
NPCI working with UIDAI to offer bank transactions on mobile - Oneindia News
This UID is going to be so fraught with fraud, starting with homegrown biometric hackers using fevicol and chewing gum to replicate fingerprints. Should be fun to watch.
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"some 100.9 million (smartphone) units were pushed in the three-month period … that figure compares to 92.1 million PCs sold during the same quarter, which, though a record for the PC industry, was left in the dust of the smartphone’s stratospheric rise."
IDC says 100.9M smartphones sold in fourth quarter, PCs outsold for first time — Engadget
