Interesting points... Having just come back from the "silicon valley of india" (bangalore) after a few years there, a few observations interlaced below:
Here it is : With almost 1 billion people in India set to potentially buy a > Tab > computer, this british company is investing in that future. > > well...i dunno about a billion people set to potentially buy the tab, unless you include babies and those on their deathbed :) having said that, the youth on average have two phones... so definitely much potential there... If you make just $10 per pad computer, that comes to a lot of money. > well...actually, $10 is approx Rs.500 and that is a LOT OF MONEY for an average indian to part with already... add that to the $60 the device costs(?), and the total at Rs.3500 is the montly salary of many people... having said that, companies like micromax have already released android phones at sub Rs.5000 and the anticipation is that at between Rs.2-3k, people will buy such devices... well, mobiles anyway... people are still very blisfully unaware of data (and it is considered expesive at Airtel offering 2 Gig for Rs. 98 a month ($2)) when calls are things like 30paisa (just over half a cent) per minute. in short... big market... for sure... but market of a billion is just putting down the number of people in the country and assuming everyone wants one :) > Now manufacturing a pad computer is somewhat complex. You need processors > that require sophisticated transistor layering technologies and not > everyone can > do that. > > However, those computers are actually made in china. They're around $60 > each. ie > > - > http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/497050952-Tablet-PC-Super-Pad-From-GreenPower-wholesalers.html > > As we in Western countries know, Indians love their music. So these pads > will be adapted to hindi and have multimedia capabilities to form the whole > next generation music devices which is expected to top a billion in sales in > the coming years. > In the end... the telco's there have to support it... with data being expensive (from an Indian perspective) it's profitable, but not at levels possibly anticipated... also, people in the "rising middle class" for the most part are hands-free... aka, no bags, etc etc.... so it should be a device that should be easy to carry... if it occupies a hand at all times, that might just be a deal breaker for many... > That's why Europe is in such a rush to build the Indian Market.. > > Are Australian's welcome there? Are we going? Do we know anything about > computers? > Australians are absolutely loved there :) With cricket being virtually a religion, and Aussies being a huge in cricket, there has been a fondness (and awe) that has built up over many many years... If you are an aussie that doesn't love his cricket, then you're not considered an aussie (in india) anyway ;) absolutely blatent plug: i know the market there well, having been in this space in india since 2008-2011... so if there is anything i can do to help (no, it does not *have to* be a commercial deal, more than happy to help out where-ever i can), i'd be more than happy to :) > > That's a question that the tech community in Australia needs to ask itself. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
