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motabhaion Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

> If you live in India, you would remember the exorbitant data charges by telecom companies in the pre-Jio era.

I do live in India. I have highlighted your point in another comment.

motabhaion Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

I meant by design. Not concept. App colours, screenshots and UI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/hke4m5/jiomeet_hey_z...

They also removed the encryption.

motabhaion Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

The didnt copy the concept. They literally copied the app. In design, screenshots, etc.

They copied whatsapp and removed the encryption so they can read the chats. They copied zoom's exact design and launched Jio Meet. Like even the fucking colours.

https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/hke4m5/jiomeet_hey_z...

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/zoom-may-take-legal-act...

motabhaion Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

Give anything at a cheap price and it will be a hit here in India.

Jio will mostly bundled this with their sim card sales. Everybody will then buy it. It will come preloaded with all their apps. Therefore, Jio users will use it. Then all non-Jio users will be forced to use it.

Thanks to Jio, bandwidth prices are insanely low here. That's the only good thing that has come due to their existence.

A few years ago, they gave away calls and internet access totally free for a year if you download all their 10 apps from the play store. Each of their apps got 50-100 million downloads. Which forced competitors to reduce prices drastically, and since then it is been an insanely competitive market here.

There is a reason Facebook and Google have invested in Jio. It's going to get into the advertising business in 1-2 years.

motabhaion Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

God I hate Jio. They want to be the combined version of Amazon, Facebook, and Google in India.

The sad thing is they have deep ties with the current Govt, meaning no anti-monopoly action against them will ever be initiated against them.

They are completely against privacy and have don't have any ethical values at all. They block all VPN's, 'progressive' sites like Wikipedia, Reddit randomly, and blatantly copy other competing apps (whatsapp and zoom were the biggest thing they copied).

They are 100% going to get into the ads and tracking business in 1.5 years. They are the ISP, the chat app, cloud storage app, the browser, the entertainment/media app of many people here. They literally know more about you than Google does.