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India wants innovation, but arrests grad who develops faster ticket-booking app
- chakrihacker 5y agoThat's the reality in India. You are safe as long as you don't innovate
- quazar987 5y agoI disagree. Its more about providing equal opportunity. Ticket booking sucks for everyone rich and poor alike. This kind of app will favor rich people who can ignore its commission and spend little more for better experience. One might say why not adopt something like this app for all but thats not possible. Operating at such large scale is very expensive and any profits from ticket commissions is never going to cover its expense and it will suffer same fate as the website.
- thawaya3113 5y agoThe application is free to use. Why are the poor disenfranchised then? And nearly every Indian has a smartphone. Access is almost certainly not an issue.
- TOMDM 5y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/1229799/india-smartphone-penetration-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1229799/india-smartphone... Smartphone penetration was at 54% in 2020, the projections have them at 66% in 2022. This is hardly everyone.
- readthenotes1 5y agoWhen someone in the 46% get a phone and want to get rail tickets, should they be have to crawl to the station and pay by cash because not everyone can use the phone app or afford crutches?
- civilized 5y agoThere is no method of accessing any good or service that the rich can't take more advantage of than the poor, because the rich can pay someone to do things for them. So by this logic, the entire economy shouldn't exist. Very convenient for bureaucrats nostalgic for the License Raj.
- perryizgr8 5y agoThis is bit of an old news. (2020)
- palerdot 5y agoPrevious discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121465 This article is really old and mods should change the title to reflect that.
- known 5y ago