News from the world of tech biz for the week of Sept 12th.
The past week will mostly be known as the week when Yahoo's board fired it's CEO. While many were pre-occupied following this story, other things did take place. Read on....
1. Tablet Sales in India - An interesting read on the market share of tablets in India. A report by Cyber media research tells the story of about 100k tablets sold till march 2011. The leader by a mile is Samsung galaxy and Android.
Another quarter of a million tablets is expected to be sold between march and December 2011. Many are waiting for the post holiday season sales numbers of the tablets from Reliance and Bharti. if 2-5 million tablets can be sold over the next 2 years in India, then an app store for India centric software will definitely be worth pursuing. A lot of activity around software centered around the Indian tablet user could be in demand(calculate your auto fare, translators from Indian languages to English, access text books etc.).
2. Chrome and FireFox leads the market - The 30-30-30 rule is at play in India. Based on the research done by statcounter, Approximating the numbers tells us that the aggressive marketing (including an advertisement at prime time TV), has paid big dividends. Given that Google seems to be into everything and failing on many fronts, this data will help compensate for other bad news. While FireFox and chrome do have a lot in common (plug ins, developer centric browsers, multiple tabs and most importantly speed), it is interesting to see IE being beaten even in free software market. IE's global market share is about 38%. Microsoft is the new IBM (the one that cannot innovate because it has become too big) and Google is the new Microsoft (in a good way though, Google has helped re-write online software with new terminologies like perpetual beta and single version browser for all). With popular support for HTML 5 and a lightweight browser becoming a reality, this battle will be worth fighting for.
3. Draft IT bill to emphasize on connectivity for all - It is always boring to read about a new law in India. But policies are a different thing. TRAI, IRDA are some of the many policy initiatives that have borne fruit at an alarming pace (considering India's pace with policy and execution). This new policy will bring the focus onto connectivity between devices, wifi in public transport, rural adoption of IT. Combine this news with MSME, a good push by mobile carriers to achieve higher penetration and lastly the demographic state of India. This can only spell more Internet based business will start and prosper in the country. It may no longer be enough to copy business models from the US, but actually think of scale-able ideas that work in India.
Interesting read
Bangalore is not a bad place to work in - This time a great read about Bangalore and it's traffic state which is nothing new to anybody who may have visited the city anytime over the past 10 years. There are so many things about this article that is interesting. IBM has something called commuter pain. Wow! how do they even model that! Here is chart that shows Bangalore's traffic is not the worst one. Even in the BRICS, it is not the worst. Bangalore is the worst traffic in India, but it is better to commute in Bangalore than it is in Beijing or Shenzen. Yeah finally Indian traffic is better than China's. Here is a metric where we are better off by doing less. It led me to the IBM microsite on traffic management. What was interesting is that the hardware spec for the product is quite detailed. I wonder how effective can a packaged solution be when applied across many cities.
The past week will mostly be known as the week when Yahoo's board fired it's CEO. While many were pre-occupied following this story, other things did take place. Read on....
1. Tablet Sales in India - An interesting read on the market share of tablets in India. A report by Cyber media research tells the story of about 100k tablets sold till march 2011. The leader by a mile is Samsung galaxy and Android.
Another quarter of a million tablets is expected to be sold between march and December 2011. Many are waiting for the post holiday season sales numbers of the tablets from Reliance and Bharti. if 2-5 million tablets can be sold over the next 2 years in India, then an app store for India centric software will definitely be worth pursuing. A lot of activity around software centered around the Indian tablet user could be in demand(calculate your auto fare, translators from Indian languages to English, access text books etc.).
2. Chrome and FireFox leads the market - The 30-30-30 rule is at play in India. Based on the research done by statcounter, Approximating the numbers tells us that the aggressive marketing (including an advertisement at prime time TV), has paid big dividends. Given that Google seems to be into everything and failing on many fronts, this data will help compensate for other bad news. While FireFox and chrome do have a lot in common (plug ins, developer centric browsers, multiple tabs and most importantly speed), it is interesting to see IE being beaten even in free software market. IE's global market share is about 38%. Microsoft is the new IBM (the one that cannot innovate because it has become too big) and Google is the new Microsoft (in a good way though, Google has helped re-write online software with new terminologies like perpetual beta and single version browser for all). With popular support for HTML 5 and a lightweight browser becoming a reality, this battle will be worth fighting for.
3. Draft IT bill to emphasize on connectivity for all - It is always boring to read about a new law in India. But policies are a different thing. TRAI, IRDA are some of the many policy initiatives that have borne fruit at an alarming pace (considering India's pace with policy and execution). This new policy will bring the focus onto connectivity between devices, wifi in public transport, rural adoption of IT. Combine this news with MSME, a good push by mobile carriers to achieve higher penetration and lastly the demographic state of India. This can only spell more Internet based business will start and prosper in the country. It may no longer be enough to copy business models from the US, but actually think of scale-able ideas that work in India.
Interesting read
Bangalore is not a bad place to work in - This time a great read about Bangalore and it's traffic state which is nothing new to anybody who may have visited the city anytime over the past 10 years. There are so many things about this article that is interesting. IBM has something called commuter pain. Wow! how do they even model that! Here is chart that shows Bangalore's traffic is not the worst one. Even in the BRICS, it is not the worst. Bangalore is the worst traffic in India, but it is better to commute in Bangalore than it is in Beijing or Shenzen. Yeah finally Indian traffic is better than China's. Here is a metric where we are better off by doing less. It led me to the IBM microsite on traffic management. What was interesting is that the hardware spec for the product is quite detailed. I wonder how effective can a packaged solution be when applied across many cities.
No comments:
Post a Comment