Last week, Google announced an Android smartphone in collaboration with Reliance Jio, the telco spearheaded by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani.
“The Jio-Google partnership is more around leveraging the Android ecosystem and services to create affordable smartphones for users. The internet provider will most likely be Jio, but users should be able to have other providers as well over time,” Yugal Joshi, vice-president at consultancy Everest Group, told Quartz. “Therefore, this initiative is quite different to Facebook one, where people were more concerned about internet ownership.”
