Divya Patni
Jaipur:
Chairman of Relance Industries Limited, Mukesh Ambani, has just announced a video integration tool, JioMeet, that looks like Zoom. On social media, Indian entrepreneurs harassed her by copying her; One person tweeted that they should have called it “Jhoom” because that is how it should be called in your area. It is not Ambani who is unrelated to the way the tech industry operates, it is Ambani’s critics. They don’t understand how tech performance works.
While this may sound strange, copying is a good way to create new things. This is how the Chinese technology companies got their start – by converting Silicon Valley technology to Chinese and improving it. The Chinese always monitor which app gets success elsewhere, and it doesn’t double before they even start adding features and compositions; they learn from the best and they are improving.That’s how Silicon Valley works and Zoom is a failure of its competing technologies: WebEx, Skype, and BlueJeans.
Steve Jobs built Macintosh by copying the windowsing interface from the Palo Alto Research Center. It has always been shy about stealing great ideas.” Almost every Apple product has features that were first made by others. ITunes was a great innovation back than in time where people used to listen their favraite music on tapes that were huge in size and not very easy to carry all the way around in public. But soundjack introduced their handheld music player for the people, back then apple did that in a more polished manner.
Mark Zuckerberg is rebuilding Facebook by copying from MySpace and Friendster, and continues to copy products. The Facebook sites are for illustrations by Fourquare; Messenger video mimics Skype; Facebook News is a Snapchat photo; and Facebook Live includes the best features of Meerkat and Periscope.Now, Zuckerberg is trying to copy WeChat by combining private messages, parties and payments. That is why he is so focused on getting WhatsApp payments approved by Indian regulators. Before buying the company, he tried desperately to copy WhatsApp, but failed several times. So he ended up buying the company, which had little to no money, for an astounding $ 20 billion, which accounted for nearly 10% of Facebook’s market. This is one of the secrets of Silicon Valley: If stealing doesn’t work, then buy a company.
By the way, they don’t call this copying or stealing; it’s called “information sharing”. Silicon Valley has the highest unemployment rates, and the top engineers rarely work in any one company for more than three years. They always join their competitors or start their own companies. As long as engineers do not copy computer codes or designs, they can build on the work they did before. Silicon Valley firms understand that working together and competing at the same time leads to success. This is reflected in even California’s extraordinary laws, which prohibit non-competition agreements.In many places, business people are reluctant to tell anyone what they are doing. But, in Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs know that when they share an idea, they get an important answer. So when you walk into a coffee shop in Palo Alto, your requesters will not hesitate to tell you their product development strategies.
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