What's your opinion on Ola's nationifacation of their products.
Lately Ola's founder Bhavish has been discontinuing their dependencies on foreign products ranging from their own cloud servers to their own GPT's which people are specualting is just a wrapper over ChatGPT and lately launched their own Ola Maps which is itself a wrapper over OpenStreetMap. Will this benefit Indian Companies to compete with the global ones or will it just die down eventually. Ola folks can shed some light on it. 😁
Ola is just doing big cost cutting. If cards played well they can be selling this as an API, cheaper alternatives to the big giants. Not the best but get the job down at a lower price. I am feeling optimistic about this for the only reason is Ola can switch back to the maps or chat gpt anytime they want. They are just building cheaper alternatives not something new.
They are not building anything, they are just taking open source projects and building their own wrapper and presenting it as their own.
Ola's founder copies everything and then lectures to not copy from foreign businesses
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Nationalisation is an entirely different thing. It’s when a government takes over control of a business or industry.
Dense of you to make linguistic remarks aimed at the Author.
RagePank
Stealth
2 months ago
Just say nationalism. Okay?
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Dekhne par hi scam lagta Hai Bro, will stay away from Ola and it's products.
It has become much worse now. Many places I can’t find on Ola are available on Uber and Google maps.
Their maps in the initial days were 🤡🤡. I once booked an auto and the auto was coming in the reverse direction to my location according to the map. I even asked the auto driver whether he was driving with his reverse on.
The app experience has drastically gone down. It now takes longer to find places and 90% of the time the map captures incorrect pins. There is a reason why Google maps excelled and nobody has been able to beat them at tech.
Ola has just stepped on a big nail themselves by removing Google maps.
Correction, Here Technologies is the largest platform for the Maps, overall correctness and business wise. Although they have less focus on direct consumer side app.
I feel like it's similar to how Unacademy went about many different products
I feel like they're trying too many big markets at the same time and trying to see if anything lands
Tough to see anything good coming about
As a customer, I should be able to do the bookings like before but that's not happening. I can't find a lot of places on the new map.
Just insert tiles on open street maps and voila u have Ola maps 😀
Uber has a lot of money and they are heavily invested in tech compared to Ola, they have a massive scale and still rely on Google Maps (atleast in India)
While the idea to build things inhouse is exciting and challenging, I would take it this with a pinch of salt as Ola leadership doesn't present any numbers around UX improvement or accuracy difference between Google Maps and their inhouse stacks.
While I understand the India card that some B2C companies play, does it really matter for B2B products?
TinyHumidity
Stealth
2 months ago
It is not nationalisation. Rapido has changed the game by subscription model, due to this driver commission are going to reduce drastically. They need to move out from USD priced products.
Search results are also always inaccurate in ola. This becomes very bad when you want to book ride for someone else.
PaleAnybody
Stealth
2 months ago
We crib about lack of India products and we ourselves don't support Indian products. Google Maps wasn't built in a day. And Google Maps has used quite a bit of Indian data to fine tune their product.
Give Ola Maps a chance. They aren't asking Google maps to be banned. They are only asking for customer support and love. If they use Indian flag to get that done then so be it.
FreeThinker
Stealth
2 months ago
How is it a nationalist move when you use software language & compiler that's invented by a foreign national, the compute, networking & storage designed and manufactured elsewhere, semiconductors are still manufactured by only a handful of companies for worldwide supply, and then the internet that's required is not fully an Indian invention.
I think this guy is trying to scam everyone by putting an truely desi outlook.
He will use all underlying foreign technology to build a product and then stick a nationalist badge to it and call for not using other foreign products.
Shouldn't he in first place stop using foreign tech that's underlying what ever they are building?
Btw, OLA when it was created itself an original copy of UBER.
Sigh .. I hate this era of nationalism. Fully fake.
"Scam" Bhavish is running at scale because he has money and resources to fund managed offerings and make noise around it.
I would be pleasantly surprised if Ola Cloud succeeds, but a cloud requires community support, good Sdks, reliability, transparency, and a great support team to manage issues. Which I dont believe they can pull off.
I feel by making Ola all about India and nationalism he is working very hard to make the IPO successful.
Marwari baniya saving money. Period. Dont need to be an IITian to figure that out
LadisWasherum
Stealth
2 months ago
Looks like an elon musk fanboy.
But if these products like map or cloud work out it will be good for the company.
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