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How stupid is Builder.ai? To even think that Air India will contract an app to them when they are the parent company of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is extr
by rg111 5y ago
How stupid is Builder.ai?
To even think that Air India will contract an app to them when they are the parent company of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is extremely moronic.
TCS has a global presence, and they get contracts from the largest everythings of India (including the India Post site, the State Bank of India's site, for example). They also handle the online exams for IIT entrances, bank promotion exams, and so on. I think you get the picture.
And Tata owns them both.
It's pretty much given that if Air India creates an app, it's TCS who will build it.
- treis 5y agoThey're creating a lot of attention for little money. Strikes me as a rather successful ad campaign.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoSuccessful in me noting to avoid anything having to do with builder.ai and engineer.ai in the future. Although the .ai domain was going to heavily lean me that way anyway.
- thunkshift1 5y agoIt will be successful if they survive the legal challenge and on good terms. Otherwise that company is toast.
- rchaud 5y agoThis kind of publicity is only valuable if the product you're selling is supposed to be subversive. Works great for controversial movies and music. Probably doesn't work as well for a SaaS app that could be sued out of existence.
- baybal2 5y agoAir India is world's worst airline, and TCS is probably world's worst IT outsourcer as well by a large margin.
- kylehotchkiss 5y agoSeeing the horror stories of underpaid pilots, terrible or nonexistent food service on ultra long haul flights, and growing maintenance backlogs during their perpetual “vande bharat” thing has been unsettling. India to this day does not allow “scheduled international flights” originally due to Covid but now just to keep the airline in business for the sale to finalize
- rg111 5y agoI agree with what you want to say. But how does that influence what I said? Would you say that Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, or HCL are better than TCS? (I know quite a few people working in those companies, and the consensus seems to be that TCS is the least bad among the WITCH companies. Correct me if I am wrong.)
- baybal2 5y ago> Would you say that Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, or HCL are better than TCS? TCS is very ceremonious, and bureaucratic on top of all other bads of giant outsourcing companies.