<story><title>What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/what-is-jio-and-why-are-techs-biggest-players-suddenly-obsessed-with-it-231ea2d407e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamshs</author><text>And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.&lt;p&gt;Jio has the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>switch11</author><text>support this 100%&lt;p&gt;if you do your due diligence companies like Reliance (Dhirubhai Ambani) are the reason most honest smart Indians are fleeing the country&lt;p&gt;From things like bribing the government at city and state levels, to &amp;#x27;disappearing competitors&amp;#x27; to going after competitors with the sole purpose of killing them off&lt;p&gt;Of course, now with what is happening with TikTok you could argue US is fast becoming the same&lt;p&gt;you can just buy Government influence instead of having to compete</text></comment>
<story><title>What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/what-is-jio-and-why-are-techs-biggest-players-suddenly-obsessed-with-it-231ea2d407e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamshs</author><text>And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.&lt;p&gt;Jio has the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donavanm</author><text>I dont know if Id characterize it exactly like that. But “market access” does seem to be is gained by a Jio tie up. The economist has been covering it regularly. Heres a July write up &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;india-incs-inward-turn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;india-incs-inw...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>