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Please show enough courtesy for down-voting me, not that i take it personally but would like to know why you differ from my opinion which comes after 20yrs of s

• mbateman 16y ago
  I didn't downvote you but I couldn't make sense of your comment. Especially the last two sentences. The idea that India is "unique" and that corporations fail because they don't get the "more in less" culture seems very vague.
  • bakbak 16y ago
    thanks for your explanation ... this is the exactly what I meant to say that when multinationals are given presentations by indian advertising agencies they say the same thing that you said above that "we can't make sense of your presentation". Let me give you couple of examples - 15 to 20yrs a go there was this indian TV maker company that was giving toughest fight to multinationals like Sony, Samsung, LG etc. - these multinationals just couldn't get it how their product which is such a huge hit worldwide is not selling in india, the reason was that the indian TV was having more meaningful features than any other tv in the market ... also when Coca Cola and Pepsi came to india, they failed horribly in the beginning, in fact coca-cola realized very soon and bought highly successful indian brand "THUMPS-UP" but the biggest benefit they got is they also brought-in those indian executives to re-shape the strategy for Coke ... this is true for almost all the foreign companies , in fact Nokia is a huge hit in India, the reason being they innovate and market product specially made for indian consumers , one of the phone has a flashlight which is a huge hit in small towns where it gets dark early in the afternoon and there is no electricity on the road ... this kind of innovation is needed when you develop product for specific market/society - you just cant guess that what is successful in western countries will be successful by default in developing or third world countries where the consumer are very price conscious but won't sacrifice on quality and features ...
    • mbateman 16y ago
      Okay, I kind of get this, but I still don't understand the upshot for Apple. Apple's products are all pretty "generalist" -- you can make apps for them that do pretty much anything. So it seems like the iPad and iPhone should be a hit as is. But I'm sure that Apple would rather give up the Indian market entirely than put a flashlight on an iPhone. The same goes for other sorts of feature considerations. I don't think Apple wants to compete in (or even believes in) markets where you compete by stacking up features.
    • glhaynes 16y ago
      What sort of features did the Indian TV have?
      • bakbak 16y ago
        one of the feature that i remember was that you can set individual settings for color, brightness, contrast and volume for each channel separately, this was a big issue as when you switch the channel suddenly color will change or volume will change due to default settings of the channel stations/broadcasters, the other was alarm settings and PIP etc.
        • glhaynes 16y ago
          Wouldn't have guessed those, thanks!