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And go look for a mess is there as voice or app. We just thought that giving users an ability to do it as per preference is the way to go.
I can tell you that privacy was a priority for us, so we've designed it from Day 1 to do all processing on the device. The map data from robot is communicated to app via local wifi.
We don't need an internet connection. We have designed it so that it can work like old applianced. However, we need local wifi to transfer map data to the app. Bluetooth isn't good for that.
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Also, let me tell you about what state of Indian in 1994 when immigrated here as a kid:
- We had three models of the cars - Fiat and Ambassador. These two had not changed its model for 30+ years. The new Maruti Suzuki was the third model introduced thru join-venture. Maruti was the first model with power steering. None of the available cars were automatic...most cars in India today are still not automatic as lot of those innovation never made it to India during the socialist Raj. In USA back then, there were at least 100s of models with far advanced technologies.
We had 2 Tv Channels - DoorDarshan (government owned TV) and ZeeTV - which was introduced post 1991 when Government finally opened up allowed private TV channels.
We had one government-owned airlines: Air India - that's it. It is still owned by Indian Government - they were recently trying to sell it but no one purchased it as its so badly run. It also doesn't innovate because it doesn't need profit to survive - government will keep funding it. Indian airports were dumps compared to today where they are finally international standards. Indian train system still doesn't allow private railroads, and yes, there's a reason why bullet trains never made it there.
In order to get a traditional "wired" phone line, we had to wait for years. You filled out a form to get a phone line and years later they would call you and say... hey, you finally have it. Cell phone leap-frogged wired phone lines in India due to capitalism - basic communication wouldn't be there if it was still socialist Raj.
You almost could not start a business in India as an entrepreneur to the scale that companies like PayTM, OYO, Ola Cab, Flipkart thrived. There were just too many laws that essentially disallowed any kind of competition to existing industries.
--------------- Protectionism == no innovation. ---------------
As Winston Churchill said:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Neither systems are perfect. It's really akin to picking your own poison.
For me, personally, after growing up in socialist India, I love America, the freedom, opportunities, an opportunities it provides.
And, here's the zinger... Thumbs-up would have thrived on its own had they just competed. It has the same taste advantage that Coca-Cola has in US market. Indians had been drinking Thumbs-up for years. It tastes different, and we liked it. We were used to it - after the novelty factor of Coca Cola, people just went back to Thumbs-up. It still thrives...
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To a certain extent, even if the article was recent, it's not a surprise. Democracies are SLOW and India is still a social democracy trying to be a capitalistic democracy - so even slower.
Democracies move fast only during a crisis. Otherwise, they are inherently slow.
Even in the US, a majority of top issues have not changed much since the 90s. Politicians have been debating pretty much the same thing without much progress...
I have an MBA, and my sense is that part of the blame has to be on MBA education itself.
MBA programs teach everything but the "Two skills absolutely necessary" as an entrepreneur: 1) ability sale (your idea, vision, team, product, etc.) and 2) ability to execute.
Luckily, I had one professor who focused on execution part of the experience by creating a class that simulated what happens when you start a company.
I remember what she always said: "If you give me a great idea, I'll give a $1 as thats all they are worth. Real value comes from executing it the right away."
Just my $0.02.
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App is free because it is incomplete (i.e. lacks few gestures). We will start charging for it once we add all the gestures!
That said, this is the first niche use case that we wanted to solve. Actually, we have significant number of daily & weekly active users who use this product everyday. We've tracked (through analytics) 25M gestures already. We have 5 star rating on mac app store, users in 150+ countries worldwide and large number of users (more than many mobile apps)!
We will be releasing volume gestures very soon to complete basic remote gestures for the app. We are also working mute, like, and scrolling gestures.
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