@CarlZha Likely outcome: Jio tries cloning most of these Chinese apps with Google/FB/MSFT SDKs, maintained and coded by FAANG engineers, running on US cloud infrastructure, while India's native tech sector languishes and FB/Jio team up to pick India's next PM
@CarlZha Reliance has subverted and exploited India's developmental agenda for 50 years now
1970s hoarding of import licenses
1980s manipulation of the DMT market
1990s oil/gas with Itoh and Enron
2000s 2G scam
2010s Rafale tender and Jio peering agreements
2020 China app ban
1970s hoarding of import licenses
1980s manipulation of the DMT market
1990s oil/gas with Itoh and Enron
2000s 2G scam
2010s Rafale tender and Jio peering agreements
2020 China app ban
@CarlZha Jio's own cloned apps are so bad they have to force them onto people's phones. ex JioMeet looks exactly like Zoom except without even Zoom's bare-bones encryption / security schema and with much worse compression, packet jitter, and lag
@CarlZha Jio + FB now wants to build an ecommerce monopoly in India by attacking the rest of India's ecomm sector for taking Chinese investment; they want to build a social media monopoly by kicking all Chinese apps...
@CarlZha By controlling 4G comms, WhatsApp, and the rest of Indian social media, as well as using traditional levers of corruption, Jio + FB can even start directly influencing Indian politics to a degree Dhirubhai could have only dreamed of...
@CarlZha The real loser here is India, as Mark Zuckerberg becomes the viceroy of India and Mukesh Ambani becomes his Nizam of Hyderabad. But I guess Indians don't care about going back to the Raj as long as they can tweet memes at @HuXijin_GT
@CarlZha @HuXijin_GT Gandhi must be rolling over in his grave. Is this the India he took a bullet for?
@CarlZha @HuXijin_GT A country whose largest company bribes the govt to create geopolitical crises so that it can build monopolies using imported capabilities it has to sell out the country to acquire. #incredibleindia indeed.
@CarlZha @HuXijin_GT To all Indians: your real enemy is not sitting in Zhongnanhai. He is sitting on Altamount Road, counting his billions while hundreds of thousands of Indians fall sick in slums less than 10km from his 27-storey perch
