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Flipkart & other ecomm portals are not offering any technology. They are using a fairly simple website to let people order everyday goods. The concept of ecomm
by mehtapratiroop 15y ago
Flipkart & other ecomm portals are not offering any technology. They are using a fairly simple website to let people order everyday goods.
The concept of ecommerce is pretty old in itself. The fact that Indian consumers have woken up so late to it re-emphasizes that Indians resist technological intervention. It is not as if internet penetration, credit card penetration and logistics infrastructure has changed radically in the past year in India. It is the only the investment scenario that has changed. Archit's article in some sense calls for more such investments in other technology and technology enabled products.
- free 15y agoThe mention of Flipkart was for parents argument that Indians don't want to pay for anything and would pirate things it they can. Flipkart sells books and music successfully which a lot of people here don't seem to be willing to pay for. >>The fact that Indian consumers have woken up so late to it re-emphasizes that Indians resist technological intervention Maybe I see things wrong but I don't think Indians resist technology. Its that the technology got here late. Also, its just that it is a different market and different factors at play here.
- movingahead 15y agoI know this is early days for Flipkart's music service, but are there any numbers available on how customers have responded to it.
- free 15y agohttp://www.pluggd.in/forum/discussion/524/flipkart-flyte-getting-8000-downloads-including-both-single-tracks-and-albums-daily http://www.pluggd.in/forum/discussion/524/flipkart-flyte-get.... Its just the beginning. I am sure that its going to increase. A lot.
- pm90 15y agoYeah I found that statement a bit weird too. I think Indians are wary of being cheated (which is a legitimate fear, I must add) which is why the adoption of new technology is a lot slower than in a high-trust western society.
- kamaal 15y agoFlipkart & other ecomm portals are not offering any technology. They are using a fairly simple website to let people order everyday goods. This is almost like saying Amazon is useless. Flipkart is doing absolutely amazing job by delivering things at people's door step. And that's not easy. Code is not an answer to everything. This is precisely what I said before. Understand what value you bring to your customers Don't assume your customers should buy from you just because your webpages loads 0.001ms faster than Flipkart. Understand the total business proposition. Technology is one aspect of it, there are many aspects to business. Unless the customers feel some value in your product they are not going to buy no matter what hipster technology its built on.
- pm90 15y agoI think you are kind of missing the point. mehtapratiroop referred to the simplicity of flipkart not as a jest, but was simply expounding the facts. (There were/are many similar sites (i think a infibeam.com?) but I think flipkart's great idea was cash-on-delivery.)
- jagira 15y agoDude, have you ever worked on sites with integrated payments? That too of Flipkart's scale? Processing 100s of transactions and dealing with Indian payment gateways requires some kickass technology. They have scores of engineers working on the site's backend.