We have a company here doing a equivalent of wireless internet, much much higher rates than we are used to getting through lines, by using radio waves. It has a special wifi router, and it comes off a tower in a city. First city will be Boston. Just… will take about 5 years, because maximum range near water sources is 120-150 miles (personal experience with military radios). But will people be able to get routers to signal back that far if in rural areas? Great for cities, you can chuck fiber optics out, but I dunno yet, puts a unexpected strain on the energy market.
I think we will see a lot if innovation in the next 10 years, this phone isn’t one of them though. However, the scandal itself exposed the idea to a lot of people, the logistics of manufacturing one, so maybe it has gotten the wheels turning in some people. Just 99.999% certain this case us a massive fraud, and everyone in the world hears it. More or less destroyed what Modi was doing with Make in India… it’s going to loom over every investor’s head why they are given infinite pain and tassel, yet this asshole just started making massive, absurd promises, accepting payments, and has absolutely no ground plan. In most countries, guys like that get arrested.
I suppose it is a good learning experience, for the people. This will be a classic case remembered for a generation. Will force people to be skeptical and scoff at zealous nationalism, sky is the limit thinking. Every dirty door to door salesman gets his foot in the door riding the excitement of such dreams. Its all bullshit, ruins people by getting them to buy into absurdities. Its why you saw such a hostile reaction to Obamacare in the US, it wasn’t the Socialism, but the insanity of signing a blind contract nobody knew what was going on, all on pipe dreams. I still haven’t seen a rational explanation of how it works. I was a salesman for a while, they tried getting me to sell $250 Kirby’s (price of manufacture) for $4000 during a economic depression in Hawaii. Only guys who could consistently sell did stuff like this… they got into their imagination and excitement, held out the carrot, and in the end, price didn’t matter. After a while, the spouse would find out, demand a return, calling a lawyer. Only people who kept the stupid things were crackheads, who sometimes owned up to 3. One tried to sell me a six month old Kirby for $50 bucks worth if new vacuum bags for his newer one, when we went to sell her a even newer one.
People are idiots, every population has them, but given educational difficulties for people already in adulthoid, India is leading the game in this department. adulthoidi wish there was a lot more emphasis on saavy consumer spending, being skeptical about too good to be true shitty markets. Believe it or not, the same market that exists in India… the little shop keepers, exist in Iraq, China, San Francisco, New York… they peddle same bootleg DVDs, shiny scarves, smelly incense, weird clothing imported from who knows, bad calander on the wall, Chinese electric cookers, teapots, etc. Whole damn planet us involved in the trade, if you went to Antarctica, you would find penguins with similar shops on icebergs. So I say this not from cultural superiority, but consumer realism… India is a embarrassment with this phone. Please, once it occurs to you this was a total fraud, write some essays in the local languages, explaining the need to think reasonably and skeptically about products. The quality of global goods can’t rise unless local goods rise everywhere, if one locality insists of frauds like this are acceptable, it grows like a cancer, effects world exports. People can’t save money, buying broken goods, so don’t have much in the bank, generally discontent. When banks lack money, they can’t loan, impoverishing the business class. Good investments can’t be made, shitty production rules the high seas. Everyone world round becomes dissapointed.
