Indian government reportedly seeks to ban sub-$150 Chinese smartphones in the country
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- Honest opinion
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- 09 Aug 2022
Dear Government of India, no one is interested to buy 3rd class sticker-rebranded products sold by lava or Micromax found in platforms of China instead of proper R&D budget phones offered by realme or Xiaomi.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2022
The "local" "manufacturers" doesn't really manufacture anything. They just rebrand a random chinese phone and slap a huge markup so thay doesn't deserve any empathy
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- Nick Tegrataker
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022What you think it does not matter to us. We only know that ... more"Local manufacturers" who simply slap their company logos on Chinese ODM-produced phones? Give them an unfair competitive advantage because they can't compete with foreign brands in terms of quality or marketing? That's pretty pathetic and low, not gonna lie.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2022
As much as I don't like to bringing politics to technology related topic and I not fond of the current Chinese regime (Even though I am Chinese myself, (Not from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau). To some extend I would agreed on sanctions a company IF they did some mistake. For example, ZTE? They asking for it. Huawei? A little bit stretch and partial victim to the political conflict and some element of security risk from CCP and also business risk to western company 5G business, at least there IS a reason for the sanctions. But outright banning other country company to sell certain priced device to boost the local company sell is not going to benefit the people of India, especially most of the Indian company are selling rebranded Chinese phone with lower quality and performance, and maybe overprice as well. Not only this will scare off foreign investor but the people is limited to their choice as well. But combating the CCP they are almost becoming them as well.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022Because, we need to give a chance to our Indian manufactur... moreHahaha, Indian keyboard warrior working overtime to justify this unilateral move by the Indian government. In the end, Indian brands like Lava and Micromax are still using Chinese parts and this ban is just a knee jerk action to gain support among naive nationalists.
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022At that time they didn’t get enough chance. That is why we ... moreAt that time? Micromax had 22 years... oh come on. They are older than Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi, Vivo and most others. They even had a sub brand called "YU" that failed. I own and have used a Yu Yutopia which was their flagship from that brand, pretty much perfect hardware, but the software killed it, it has a fatal issue, which is solvable yes, but most people just sent the phone back.. with no software upgrades it couldn't compete and it still can't.
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- 09 Aug 2022
Anonymous, 09 Aug 2022And I will tell you stop being a nationalist, and buy the b... moreWhat you think it does not matter to us. We only know that we have to give a chance to our local manufacturers 😒
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- Daisuki
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- 09 Aug 2022
So let's say your buy more for the iPhone it is also from China. Unless your country can make phone with whole line.
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- Dometalican
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- 09 Aug 2022
I don't like this move. As someone put it eloquently here, if India wants their brands to sell better, make better phones. It's not that complicated. Sure, it's easier for the Chinese brands because they build millions of phones that look the same but just changing the internals for lower costs, but the government should help Lava and MicroMax with funding if they really want the local brands to bolster.
Shoot, I've always wanted to make a smartphone funded by campaigns with absolute vanilla Android with the ability to easily switch to / e / Foundation, GrapheneOS, or Lineage at the startup but my research couldn't even get me a quote from any manufacturer to help me out.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022Again I will tell you oil in your own machine 😏And I will tell you stop being a nationalist, and buy the best product you can afford. Using racist policies to boost certain companies or manufacturers is ridiculous. Competition pushes innovation and quality. Oh, and miss me with the pseudo-philosophical "oil your machine" stuff. The rich will keep buying their iPhones and Galaxy S-whatevers, you'll be left buying e-waste rebranded as "Indian".
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- 09 Aug 2022
Yext, 09 Aug 2022First time? Both Lava and Micromax are really old manufacturers.At that time they didn’t get enough chance. That is why we want to give them another chance 😒
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- 09 Aug 2022
Nick Tegrataker, 09 Aug 2022There's not much to "know" about this matter... moreI will again want to tell you that it takes some time to make a better product. That is not possible in one day. That is why we want to give them another chance. 😒
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Anonymous, 09 Aug 2022The irony is that those "Indian" brands are rebra... moreAgain I will tell you oil in your own machine 😏
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- Nick Tegrataker
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022And who told you put a comment about a subject which you do... moreThere's not much to "know" about this matter. Local companies are struggling because their products are considerably inferiour to those from other countries, so the government is trying to give those local companies an unfair advantage by banning their rivals from selling cheap phones, in order to (hopefully) boost their sales and people will have a more nationalistic mindset.
Think of it this way - imagine what would happen if the Japanese government banned low-end phone sales of Samsung, Xiaomi and Oppo to give Sony and Sharp more breathing room in the smartphone market. Now that would be an outright crazy thing to do, don't you think?
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- 09 Aug 2022
AnonD-1060663, 09 Aug 2022It is not possible to make a better product at a first time... moreFirst time? Both Lava and Micromax are really old manufacturers.
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Yext, 09 Aug 2022Making better products really helps when you want to sell them.It is not possible to make a better product at a first time. It takes some time 😒
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2022
Nick Tegrataker, 09 Aug 2022They have already been given a chance and so far aren'... moreThe irony is that those "Indian" brands are rebranded Chinese ODM devices, similar to Nokia's or Motorola's low end offerings. So "Indian" only in name.
Another day, another nonsense law is passed somewhere in the world that is based solely on dumb nationalism...
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- Yilo
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- 09 Aug 2022
I don't think that this will happen. It would start a nationwide protest and decrease government's popularity when 2024 election is just around the corner
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- AnonD-1060663
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- 09 Aug 2022
A.C, 09 Aug 2022That is really not gonna help ngl- Like competitions happen... moreWe don’t block them entirely. So, what you are thinking that will never happen 😏.