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Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Re: Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Post by akjdhfdf3723 »

> English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.

In all my years of living in India, I've not come across one person using anything other than English. Most people, even in IT, hadn't the slightest clue about how to type their own language into a PC. Didn't stop them from being "proud" of though.

Re: Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Post by Alterlife »

uji wrote: post #2

This is certainly good for India. I predict, over time, cash-less transactions in India will increase, as more companies start investing in cashless transactions.

This good for Google.

India is already going cashless. There are plenty of wallets and chash-less apps spending money trying to buy market share. Every vendor and their younger brouther has their own wallet app. You'd be hard pressed to find a shop without a paytm or phonepe or whatever barcode at the window.

It's already happening. Google is trying to ride the wave, and the government is trying to ride the Google PR wave!

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Post by pvsukale3 »

I live in India. Many people have launched UPI based payment apps. Even government launched an app called BHIM. It is really good. UPI is a really good concept.

The problem: None of these apps is used by most of the vendors in cities. Except for Paytm which is available with many small vendors in cities. They used the demonetization period to heavily market the app by going vendor to vendor singing them up.BHIM is really good but government needs to work on its marketing. They can use college/school students everywhere to do the same. JIO has granted access to fast mobile networks to common people. We need to teach people how to use these apps.

Re: Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Post by dingo_bat »

akjdhfdf3723 wrote: post #4

> English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. In all my years of living in India, I've not come across one person using anything other than English. Most people, even in IT, hadn't the slightest clue about how to type their own language into a PC. Didn't stop them from being "proud" of though.

I see a lot of Uber drivers using Kannada for the entire phone here in Bangalore. Usage may be more than what is visible to us.

Re: Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Post by namanyayg »

akjdhfdf3723 wrote: post #4

> English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. In all my years of living in India, I've not come across one person using anything other than English. Most people, even in IT, hadn't the slightest clue about how to type their own language into a PC. Didn't stop them from being "proud" of though.

I've seen Uber drivers use Uber and Google Maps in Hindi, and I assume it would be the same in other regions for their regional languages. These things exist because there's a market for it.

Re: Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

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Post by srisa »

akjdhfdf3723 wrote: post #4

> English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. In all my years of living in India, I've not come across one person using anything other than English. Most people, even in IT, hadn't the slightest clue about how to type their own language into a PC. Didn't stop them from being "proud" of though.

I have not seen or used the app. Having the labels in non-English languages can be very helpful. Typing vernacular languages on keyboard with just English alphabet is complicated to say the least.
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