New is new. Anytime something is new, it is bound to bring attention – both good and not so good. This is what is happening with the Freedom 251 telephone and its maker, Ringing Bells.
To make a new mobile telephone is ok. To make a new mobile telephone which is maybe a little less expensive than the competition is ok as well. But to make a new mobile telephone which upends the status quo and throws the entire mobile telephone world on its ear is most certainly to bring a tremendous amount of attention to oneself.
All new things have always brought this sort of attention – and scrutiny – from the status quo. When electricity was introduced, when cars were introduced, when airplanes were introduced – all of these new things were opposed by the status quo at the time. Electricity was opposed by the kerosene lamp industry as potentially electrocuting people. Cars were opposed by the horse-and-buggy companies as “noisy, dangerous things” and airplanes were, understandably, opposed by transatlantic steam ship operators as never being able to transport someone from the USA to Europe. As history and time have shown us, of course, we now use cars, electricity and airplanes regularly. This is the challenge and the nature of new and disrupting things. If they are truly good things, they will endure the scrutiny and attention that comes with being new and will become part of our daily lives.
Such is the case now ongoing with the Freedom 251 mobile telephones. To make a mobile telephone with a camera, operating system, etc. etc. which costs, as one online newspaper said, “about the price of a cup of coffee” is amazing to say the least. Now the I-T department of India is looking into this disruptive newcomer to the mobile telephone world as well as the Excise Tax and Income Tax departments of India. The Ringing Bells Company (the company which makes the Freedom 251 mobile telephones) financial structure and its Registrar of Companies (RofC) is being studied. In short, the company and its disruptive product are under the hot sun of a magnifying glass by its competitors and the authorities. We will watch carefully what happens as these things unfold, but one thing is certain: the mobile telephone world in India – and possibly the world – will likely never be the same.
When the Wright Brothers flew the world’s first airplane on December 17, 1903 no one would have imagined that just a mere 66 years later – on July 20, 1969 man would walk on the moon! Think of it. It took 1,903 years for man to fly the first airplane and once that was achieved, it took just 66 years after that for man to take that new invention, perfect it, develop it and walk on the moon! Just 66 years compared to One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three years! Progress is progress and in life change is the only constant.
We at IndiaFreelancers.com will follow the news and the developments which continue to happen with this new and apparently revolutionary new mobile telephone. Freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com will want to know if they can and should write software for this new disruptive machine – and we will keep you informed of developments on this site. We suspect, however, that just as with the Wright Brothers’ invention, the time to when a mobile telephone will not be as expensive as they are now, seems to be coming soon.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com
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