The SnapChat Fiasco

Snapchat is in the news in India for all the wrong reasons. The reason: Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is alleged to have said the following statement in 2015: “This app is only for rich people… I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.” #UninstallSnapchat is trending big and apparently Google Play Store ratings for the app have fallen.

Anyways, this is something a downside which you can expect from such a conspicuous statement but after reading the above statement ‘carefully’ and the whole context in which it has been spoken plus the reason why he said this, I believe whatever the CEO said is quite true actually.
The way Indians reacted to this thing is quite absurd, funny, illogical & idiotic in my pov. We Indians are aggressive when we are angry, we left out every reasons that can prove us wrong in such situations, not listening to the other person is programmed in us “by-default”; why can’t we actually for once calm down ourselves and look at the situation from the another's perspective? oh..i know the reason, it's because it requires an effort and we are lazy people, we believe in things which others has said which makes us naive and also in our ‘gut’ feeling which is ok but before raising your voice against (or in favor) of something first have a look at the situation by yourself. And if you still doesn't want to, let me help you to look at the whole situation of SNAPCHAT FIASCO from different angle.

• The statement that came forward is only a piece of whole testimony that CEO put in front. By “poor countries” what he meant was “countries with low internet connectivity” (which is a true for India..oops !).
  Here is what he said “In addition, because our products typically require high bandwidth data capabilities, the majority of our users live in countries with high-end mobile device penetration and high bandwidth capacity cellular networks with large coverage areas. We therefore do not expect to experience rapid user growth or engagement in countries with low smartphone penetration even if such countries have well-established and high bandwidth capacity cellular networks. We may also not experience rapid user growth or engagement in countries where, even though smartphone penetration is high, due to the lack of sufficient cellular based data networks, consumers rely heavily on Wi-Fi and may not access our products regularly.”
  If you look at their statement, India typically is not a market where they will do well. Sure all of a sudden 4G is popular thanks to Reliance Jio, but our internet connectivity is far from excellent and yeah Snapchat does require a constant and heavy duty internet connection, since the app is so geared around uploading and consuming video content.This shows how “absurdly” Indians reacted to the whole scenario :-/
• The other problem for Snapchat: Android has never been their priority and that’s what a majority of people in India use, in fact most of the “developing” countries (Yes we are still a Developing country), Android reigns supreme.
  Again the SEC statement reads, “To continue growth in user engagement, we will need to prioritize development of our products to operate on smartphones with Android operating systems. If we are unable to improve operability of our products on smartphones with Android operating systems, and those smartphones become more popular and fewer people use smartphones with iOS operating systems, our business could be seriously harmed.”
  In Snapchat’s own words, their success right now is dependent on iOS being popular so before reacting in an idiotic way, next time think from your head ( that is if you can :P) !
• While people were boycotting snapchat others funnily lost the plot while expressing their anger and mistook Snapchat with the e-commerce platform Snapdeal and down-voted the Snapdeal app. I mean are you guys so stupid that you just can’t differentiate between two apps on the android market or blind to even see what is actually going on? This shows how much we Indians rely on “what other people said” and not thinking or using our own brain. Snapdeal CEO Kunal Bahl wrote on Twitter: “People asking us to make a statement that Snapdeal is not Snapchat was possibly the last thing I thought I would ever need to do". ( ROFL :D).
  Such reactions of people makes me wonder how many times these people would have wrongly answered the question in examination since they are not even bothered to read the whole question that has been asked :P
• Lets face the truth now, if you were the CEO of a billion dollar company ask yourself this question: Would you expand your business to the countries where there is less number of chances of expansion & increase in revenue? Certainly Not. The key word of the statement made by CEO was “expansion” and he was right by saying that he doesn’t want to expand into poor countries like India (& Spain). I mean seriously if i (or someone else) would have been in his place, i will surely not expand my business into such countries or area where there is less chances to increase my company’s market value. India is still developing, it’s true that we are attracting lot of investors to come in India (Thanks to PM Modi) but still we have a long way to go and also that every business man has different perspective & thinking and expanding a business to another country requires lot of money, research & time and even after that if company is not able to make some money then what’s the point of expansion.

And tell me how many people are there who actually stopped using snapchat after this..i would say very few (1-5 out of 100) which is negligible and trust me after a month they will come back and everyone will gonna forget about this whole “petty” thing.

As for now,

It is safe to say that, we Indians need Anger Management Classes. I fail to understand this fact that, how we so easily starts hyperventilating regarding something as baseless such as this. 

Being Patriotic is one thing but blindly accusing someone is Idiotic in nature. Think twice, Think yourself, Think logically, Think wisely, See the whole situation from every perspective, Don’t be a fool or naive, Shift your paradigm, Broaden your views, and then make up your point with strong reasons to back it up and just stop going in the same direction where every person is going. Please.