India wants innovation, but arrests grad who develops faster ticket-booking app

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34 points·rustoo··8 comments

That's the reality in India. You are safe as long as you don't innovate

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121465

This article is really old and mods should change the title to reflect that.

I 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.

The 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.

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.

When 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?

There 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.

This is bit of an old news. (2020)

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