What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
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#2If curious see also
a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24008244
a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23908057
a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941489
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#3Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.
Jio has the market.
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#4Does the fact that Google and Microsoft have Indian CEOs, Sundar / Satya respectively, give them an advantage when dealing with the Indian market? Especially when considering the fact this pronounced interest in Jio is largely just as a way to enter into negotiations with the owners of the Indian market/government.
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#5Does the fact that Google and Microsoft have Indian CEOs, Sundar / Satya respectively, give them an advantage when dealing with the Indian market? Especially when considering the fact this pronounced interest in Jio is largely just as a way to enter into negotiations with the owners of the Indian market/government.
Based on my limited experience (2.5 years based in Singapore (2010-2012) as tech evangelist for Amazon Web Services for APAC, ~25 business trips to India, dealing mostly with businesses but sometimes with government), understanding the culture helps, but I don't think at that level it's going to make a huge difference, compared to what's actually on the table.
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#6I wonder how the work culture inside Jio is. Reliance (Petro-refinery side) is one of the "core companies" for Chemical Engineers but after a summer internship, students didn't seem interested in pursuing employment there unless there was no option left. These companies used to be derogatorily referred to as 'Lala companies' based on the heredity CEOship. (Lalas typically are merchant class of India, who pass on their SMBs to their sons)
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#7Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income. Jio has the market.
And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.
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#8Does the fact that Google and Microsoft have Indian CEOs, Sundar / Satya respectively, give them an advantage when dealing with the Indian market? Especially when considering the fact this pronounced interest in Jio is largely just as a way to enter into negotiations with the owners of the Indian market/government.
I thought Facebook got the better deal as it signed it before google.
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#9Is Jio still using and building on KaiOS, their fork of FirefoxOS, the javascript-based mobile OS? I'd love to read the story behind that and where it's going next. Are their contributions open source?
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#10Does the fact that Google and Microsoft have Indian CEOs, Sundar / Satya respectively, give them an advantage when dealing with the Indian market? Especially when considering the fact this pronounced interest in Jio is largely just as a way to enter into negotiations with the owners of the Indian market/government.
They might be wrong caste to matter in any negotiations? also https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azjp5/silicon-valley-has...