desikoder

> The last thing I want is a webpage being able to access bluetooth, notifications or any sensor data. No, more permission dialogs is also not what I want.

And how is having the same developer do it via a native application any different? Permission controls for browser can be managed the same way they are being managed for native apps. In fact, once a web app is allowed to register itself as an app, you will be able to centrally view permissions from your existing permission manager settings in your respective operating system.

ZipDial have been referenced 43 times in this article! Is this some of marketing move?

ROFL!

Well, most of that comes by building products from established standards by the west and providing support services. So, the point remains, knowledge based economy, while certainly useful, is not the only way for an economy to grow. Sheer hardwork can be an immense force too, that's what the chinese did over the years and what this article points to as well.

Yeah, people have been selling an invisible product since thousands of years (religion), so it is quite possible to get billions of people to lie to themselves and to others.

In general, India has dealt unexpectedly well with this health crisis, given it's lack of resources for health care (compared to other large economies).

Bengaluru, in particular, is better off because of relatively lesser number of ghettos compared to other major cities in the country.

Considering it's a hub significantly driven by ITES money, what would be more interesting to watch is how does it come out of it, now that it's quite evident that IT processionals can quite capably work from home.

Would bengaluru still hold the crown of the IT of india or this will finally incentivize the breaking down of budding metro cities?

At this point, I would much rather use any x86 based laptop instead. Their price-to-performance ratio's have significantly increased since the first RPI was introduced and for a 100$, you get a much better package. So, unless the ARM ecosystem grows to allow for pluggable, extensible and better performing solutions than the latest entry-level celeron or ryzen based systems, I am no longer investing into it.