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BharOS – The Bollysystem 3.0

A schizophrenic OS that no one will want to use The new Indian OS for smartphones doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but I think it will appeal...

India Tech – Unicorns and canaries

Indian unicorns sing like canaries. India is a few months ahead of the USA when it comes to dealing with the fall-out of easy money as its once highly sought...

Sea – All at sea

Sea is in for further rough weather. Sea has taken a big hit as India has banned its most popular game, Free Fire, creating the concern that the growth of...

Crypto – Another outlaw

India forgoes a great opportunity. The Indian state’s desire to control its currency is so great that it is willing to forgo the huge opportunity granted to it when China...

Jio Platforms – The Bollysystem 2.0 pt. II

Jio and Google fragment the Android platform. Jio Platforms is redoubling its efforts to capture the Indian market for new digital services while ceding the traditional ecosystem to Google and...

China vs. India – Warning shot pt. II

The smartphone market is the elephant in the room. India has continued to express its unhappiness with China in a dispute which could end up hurting Chinese companies a lot...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. XXI

India is a blow upon a bruise. India’s move to stop Indian operators from using Chinese telecom equipment vendors looks bad for Huawei but it is quite possible that the...

Jio Platforms – The vacuum.

Jio has a window to fill the void left by China. The banning of Chinese apps in India has created a convenient vacuum for which there is a great opportunity...

TikTok – Ticking clock.

Any move needs to happen fast. The fact that TikTok is not that difficult to emulate shows that its real asset is its network of users which is why it...

Jio Platforms – The Bollysystem 2.0.

Google investment clarifies intentions. Jio Platforms now has both Facebook and Google as investors indicating that Jio’s strategy is not to create a digital ecosystem of its own, but instead...