Apple finds a new path for itself

When we hear the name of tech giant Apple, the first thing that strikes is Steve Jobs. Beginning with desktop systems, Apple moved towards smartphones market and the highlight was that the company clearly understood the future of Entertainment, apps and other content. But the competitors realized the potential later and Apple revolutionized the smart phone industry with its new innovations. 

Apple has tough competition in the smartphone industry. According to market analyzers, Apple has come to standstill in smartphone market and the bigger question for Apple is to break through this and it is touted that because of the same Apple is entering to new sector and carve a place for itself. Looks like Apple’s move towards acquiring startup Glimpse is a step towards the same.

# The reason for Apple to acquire startup Glimpse

To make a mark for itself in the health sector, Apple has acquired startup Glimpse. according to latest news updates ,this is a recent acquisition by Apple. But still there has been no public announcement about the same by the tech giant. The startup Glimpse is founded by two Indians namely Anil Sethi and Karthik Hariharan in the year 2013. This company not only keeps the health related records of their customers but also provides information about the same from time to time.

On iphone 6, Apple has a health kit app and it helps the users to get their health related records on the go. Just a few months back, Apple had also acquired few small companies like Care Kit, Research Kit and others. These companies provide health related statistics to patients, doctors and researchers via cell phones.

Talking about the same, a speaker of Apple said that we have been acquiring small tech companies from time to time. Generally, we don’t want to talk about our strategy and intention for a particular step.

With Apple acquiring Glimpse one thing is clear that Apple is trying to attract the audience in health and fitness sector. Also with this move, Apple will be moving to a different sector all together.

#The main reason for Apple to enter the Health Sector

According to a latest news report, Health sector in America is worth 3 arab dollars. This is a clear indication why these big tech giants like Google, Apple are interested with healthcare sector. In 2014 Apple’s CEO Tim Cook had announced a new product ‘Apple watch’. This watch made its presence in market in 2015 and this helped customers to track their health, fitness. To create a strong hold in the market Apple launched Health Kit App in Iphone 6.

According to ABI Research, this year mobile healthcare industry will be worth 400 crore dollars. Taking in consideration the future growth aspect of Health sector industry, Apple and its competitors like Google, IBM, Samsung has entered the market. Even Amazon and Facebook plan to venture the same in near future.

Some more reasons for the acquisition:

Apple for first time has seen low in 13 years in revenue. We all know that 25 crore dollar is not a big amount for the tech giant but it is a matter of concern for Apple to take the next step. Just beginning of the year Apple had announced that for first time sales of smartphones has seen a fall.  With this Apple lost its title of most valuable company to new company Alphabet.

This clearly shows the moves of the tech giant into a sector which I yet to be explored. Smart, isn’t it!

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India: Caught Short, Why?

Indian Economy and Development is totally dependent on upcoming generation as children are touted to be future of the nation. India aims to be one of the top developed countries in the World but after the Water Aid report, an international non-profit organization, you will be shocked to core!

The survey mentions that in India, there are ‘n’ numbers of stunted children and there is big difference between the height, given the factors of weight and age. Many children do not have particular weight of height according to their age and this is concerning aspect for the nation.

Compared to all the countries across the Globe, India is on the first place to have highest number of stunted children. According to Water Aid organization, some of the factors that play a crucial role in stunted height are lack of purified water, no proper sanitation, and lack of nutrition. Across the Globe, 159 million children under the age of five are stunted one in four children. But in India, it is every 5 children, 2 are stunted.

Situation of Children:-

If India’s population is considered 125 crores, then according to present calculation approximately 16 crore population in India is occupied by children under 5 years, out of which 4 cr and 80 lakh children do not have proper height according to age or weight.
Almost 7 cr 60 lakh kids do not have basic facility of hygienic drinking water. Due to the same, every year almost 1 lakh 40 thousand children are prone to Diarrhea.

As per live news report, almost 60% of children in India face sanitation issues and India is ranked amongst first countries to have lack of sanitation, Nigeria on the second place and Pakistan on third position. 

The report also mentions that according to a recent study suggests that 54% of international variation in children’s height can be linked to open defecation, which spreads deadly diseases and makes children more susceptible to diarrhoeal illness and infection. India has made progress on reducing child stunting, from 48% of all children in 2006 to 39% in 2014.

United Nations Organisations (UNO) Millennium Targets:-

When will India achieve its goals?

Compared to China, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, India has more number of stunted children. The above countries are looking after proper nutrition of their countrymen and also making sure that each one gets basic necessities. But if India goes at this pace, then India will be free of stunted children only by 2043.

According to the latest news updates India loses almost 3% of GDP which is a big amount on stunted children, if adequate actions are taken then India can definitely erase the issue of stunted children, thus save a big amount from the economy and take a step towards developed country.

Interesting facts by Water Aid Organization

-Worldwide ratio of stunted children in 4:1 and in India it is 5:2
- The cause for ¼ stunted children is because of diarrhea.
- 88% of diarrhea is causes due to not washing hands properly.
- In spite of China being the most populated country, India has six times more stunted children.

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Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi: A Trap?

Recently Facebook breaking headlines for giving free internet to check out status updates and with Re 1, one could access Facebook totally. With this there has been a lot of buzz about the social media giant, but now the latest news is that Facebook has come up with new project ‘Express Wi-Fi’. For the same, Facebook has partnered with BSNL and ISP to sponsor 125 Wi-Fi hotspots in villages across west and south India as a part of Digital India campaign. According to statement given by BSNL Chairman and MD, Anupam Shrivastava said, “Facebook will pay Rs5 lakh to BSNL bandwidth for each hotspot per annum.”

With this it is said that Facebook will bring affordable internet access to rural India. According to media reports, Express Wi-Fi has already completed a trial period in the country with a local state-run telecom and about 125 rural Wi-Fi hotspots.
According to well-known market analyzers, “The Express Wi-Fi service is on Internet.org. It is the same platform it used for Free Basics which was opposed by India. But even now the Express Wi-Fi page on Internet.org gives a link that they have to register to Free Basics to get themselves included. With this Facebook is moving back to Free Basics and thus makes me question Net neutrality.”

Adding further, analysts explain, “In 2015 Facebook had almost 134.5 million users; because of this India was Facebook’s second largest market. So now with Express Wi-Fi, it looks like Facebook wants more people to access internet in order to become it’s users.”

Free basics

India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in February banned Facebook’s free basics service, on the grounds that it violated the principles of net neutrality. Due to free basics, equal treatment of traffic on internet was not possible.
That time Facebook had said it would not try to provide the service again in India. But this time they have come up with Express Wi-Fi and a line that mentions log on to register your site for Free Basis. 

Also Facebook said that it was simply trying to connect the unconnected, and that some web access is better than none at all. Critics state that Facebook this time has planned not to violate the guidelines of net neutrality and keep Express Wi-Fi free and transparent. But it doesn’t look like it’s following the same.

If Facebook tries to bring back free basics once again, then there will be opposition for sure. If not then this will be a great step to connect people across rural parts of India and thus a move towards Mission Digital India.

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