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The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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Basically you need to bribe everyone to do anything in India. Not sure if this is something Apple is ready for.

Agreed. Considering I've been there a few tiems myself. An example I can give confirming this is that I've had a freinds uncle who had the money to afford a flat in Mumbai but the owner of the flat property didnt want to give permission. Anwyays it took a lot of "negotations" for that to go through.

How is that bribery? Sounds like negotiation tactics.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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Basically you need to bribe everyone to do anything in India. Not sure if this is something Apple is ready for.

I'm not sure even bribing would help in this case. The government is pretty serious about the manufacturing push.

I'm quite happy that Apple is not allowed to dump refurbished crap here. They sell enough phones already. They can continue that or they can start manufacturing here and open their store.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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India has a misguided government that is crippled by bureaucracy and incompetent. The country would be in much better shape if it was still controlled by the British.

FYI: India went from 27% of world income to 3% under colonial rule

This would be a much more compelling point if I thought world income had stayed constant while India was under British colonial rule.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Considering I've been there a few tiems myself. An example I can give confirming this is that I've had a freinds uncle who had the money to afford a flat in Mumbai but the owner of the flat property didnt want to give permission. Anwyays it took a lot of "negotations" for that to go through.

How is that bribery? Sounds like negotiation tactics.

his use of flat owner is confusing, but in this context it does refer to the flat owner directly - it refers to the owner of the flat property, which would be analogous to a one-man co-op board in the USA.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that bribery? Sounds like negotiation tactics.

his use of flat owner is confusing, but in this context it does refer to the flat owner directly - it refers to the owner of the flat property, which would be analogous to a one-man co-op board in the USA.

Correct, sorry I wasnt that clear and thanks for clearing that up since I was writing this from my phone.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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India has a misguided government that is crippled by bureaucracy and incompetent. The country would be in much better shape if it was still controlled by the British.

Please keep nationalistic grandstanding off HN. We don't want this kind of flamewar here, and HN's many Indian readers have a right (as does anyone else) not to see their country insulted on this site.

Re: The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

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India has a misguided government that is crippled by bureaucracy and incompetent. The country would be in much better shape if it was still controlled by the British.

FYI: India went from 27% of world income to 3% under colonial rule

Source/context? There was no such thing as "India" before colonial rule. The idea of India as a cohesive entity is a colonial and post-colonial innovation.

Hinduism was never even a cohesive entity before British rule, it was the orientalist scholars that classified it based on many similar belief systems. http://www.e-ir.info/2012/11/26/the-impact-of-european-colon...

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