Apple products are built around the notion of picking up ideas that are already common, reducing them to brightly-coloured, child-like simplicity, imposing conformity, and then suggesting that buying into that conformity means you're a seriously cool adult, says Mihir S Sharma.
The foremost lesson is that technology has got commoditised.
RIL has been talking to groups including Gionee, Huawei and Xiaomi
Continuing his investment spree in India's hot start-ups, Ratan Tata on Friday invested in Kyazoonga.
The past few years have seen a frenzy of phone launches.
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Apple and Samsung are international players and should work as a team with domestic companies to transform India into a global powerhouse: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
OnePlus announces plans to make in India
The government is likely to exempt iPhone and iPad maker Apple from mandatory local sourcing rule, a move which would pave the way for tech giant opening single-brand retail stores in the country.
Google is going ahead with a policy revision mandating 30% charge on in-app purchases across all apps on Play Store. This has left developers' community worried about tighter squeeze on their earnings, says Yuvraj Malik.
Tata has emerged as a major venture capital investor since his retirement.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, recently stated that he sees India in the same position that China was seven to ten years ago
This is Tata's seventh investment this year.
The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones
FirstCry is omni-channel player with presence across desktop, mobile and offline routes offering baby and maternity products in India.
'If Indians are as smart as their counterparts in university, and have equal opportunity, then what is the reason that we cannot produce inventions of quality that are recognised by the world?'
Tizen is an open source operating system built by the eponymous organisation that includes Samsung as a member.
The plain, simple, minimal user interface that the CyanogenMod custom Android ROM brings to the One is delightful.
At a starting price of Rs 35,990, the Red Magic 3 is a compelling go-to device if you are a gamer, says Veer Arjun Singh.
MUrgency is slated to launch services in Amritsar and Jalandhar in the last week of May and cover the entire state by June end.
Overall, cumulative direct investment from China stood at just $2.05 billion till June 2018, according to consolidated DIPP figures
From Samsung to Apple iPhone XR, smartphone firms are showering discounts in April.
According to analysts, most of the growth in the smartphone space will come from existing users, who will be lured to upgrade their handsets as new features and technologies turn existing features redundant, says Arnab Dutta.
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
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The growing interest in alternative sports is encouraging Ronnie Screwvala to extend the U Mumba brand from kabaddi to football and volleyball.
It was not immediately known how many jobs the proposed new plants would eventually create.
Ratan Tata has made investments in his personal capacity in more than 15 start-ups over the last 20 months.
Today pay-later services are available for practically anything under the sun. And these include small purchases like clothes, gadgets, movie tickets, and even food.
E-commerce has become a success in China as it overtook the US as the world largest online retail market.
Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu is slated to meet senior executives of Apple on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month.
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Gionee on Saturday launched its 'ELife S7' in the Indian market.
The Moto G6 has a modern screen, a front-facing fingerprint sensor, dual cameras on the rear, a glass build, a USB type-C port and water resistance that could save it from accidental splashes, says Khalid Anzar.
Of late, competition has forced companies to price their tablets competitively, thus bringing them within reach of Indian consumers. We have compiled a list of some tablets that are expected to make waves in 2016.
Lenovo Group Ltd said on Tuesday it was establishing a smartphone assembly unit in India.
'I've been backing businesses in the e-commerce space because they enable goods and services to reach people who could never have been catered to in this manner before.'
It had requested the government to grant it 15 years of duty-free import of components to assemble its iPhones in the country, sharing a road map to slowly indigenise products.
The maker of the iPhone and the iPad has made a proposal to the government for a wholesale foray.
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