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  Ah yes, Apple's in trouble    Said he about a company that has hit a 1 Trillion Dollar market cap. A figure most certainly larger than many many countries entire GDP. So what's with the claiming of them being in trouble😨.     Well, Briefly I'm going to talk I phones, why I phones specifically?? Well because 66% of apple's revenues are coming from the Iphone. The Iphone in it's inception proved to be a revolutionary machine. The sheer convenience Steve Jobs was (And numerous nameless, faceless scientists who actually developed the thing xD) selling people was mind blowing to them. Before iphone people were using stylus for their touch screen phones. Which to say was... uncomfortable ..is an understatement. The screen was hard to touch by fingers, even with the stylus the screen was as buggy (cyberpunk screeches) as it could get. I  have found myself wanting to do one task with an old stylus phone and it ended up getting commands for something else entire...

  The curious case of Xiaomi: The...Internet company? A simple google search led me here, Xiaomi's global VP and MD of Xiaomi India, saying Xiaomi is an internet company CONNECTED via smartphones and smart hardware through IoT. Basically what he means is Xiaomi isn't in the business of hardware. SUS. The company sells enormous amount of hardware for not calling it a hardware company. The CEO Lei Jun said that company will always limit it's profit margins strictly on or below 5%.  Xiaomi limits profit margin at 5 per cent; will return the excess to users (businesstoday.in) So, when Xiaomi entered India and offered smartphones that were 4g ready and spec filled at half the rate of competitors whilst also having good quality, were they doing charity😱. The answer is : Yep, Definitely NOT When a company is offering you hardware i.e. Phones at such cheap prices there HAS TO be some catch after it. Well, Xiaomi's business model is a lot smarter than you'd think. It'...

 Well hello ladies and gentlemen, and to everyone reading. This is Sohil Bankar. A novice tech enthusiast from India. I am new to every aspect of blogging, let's see how this goes. I've no idea if this will be read anyone as I don't know how Blogger functions. But I like to talk tech, so here I go. Today I feel like I need to talk about The Indian smartphone market , the telecom sector and more   My first phone was from a company named Coolpad, it was a Chinese smartphone brand that's nowhere to be found as of now. I owned it for 2 years I suppose from 2014-2016 roughly. 2014 was a different time than today for Indian Smartphone markets. India was emerging, slowly but surely. There was no XIAOMI or JIO at that time.  It would take another year for JIO to come disrupt the telecom whole and sole and it would also take a year for Xiaomi to start becoming relevant. As I think the success of xiaomi is largely owed to JIO. When I bought my first smartphone, coolpad. Xiaomi...