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Very bad decision. Myntra's parent Flipkart is also pushing for something similar. Not every user in India has a smartphone to use apps. They will be losing a l
by jitix 11y ago
Very bad decision. Myntra's parent Flipkart is also pushing for something similar. Not every user in India has a smartphone to use apps. They will be losing a lot of customers (like my mom, aunt, grandpa, etc) who can use websites but don't use smartphones.
- hiphopyo 11y agoIsn't Firefox OS with their mobile web platform about to flood into India as well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519336
- drvortex 11y agoHuh? Why India? The link talks about Africa. The Indian mobile market has been completely taken over by Android. About 50% of molbile phones sold in India are cheap Chinese phones. But even those these days come with 1Ghz processors and 4 inch screens (albeit of poor quality). These run Android fine. Firefox OS is at the moment clearly heading for the no-mobile-phones-yet market and offering a low-end phone. India is somewhere in the mostly-mid-range-mobile-phones zone now.
- drvortex 11y agoThey don't make these decisions lightly. They have done the market research and must have deemed it an acceptable loss to lose these desktop people.