The only true benefit I had of owning an Amex was to (1) not wait in queue at airports lounges (2) Annual Taj vouchers.
The have devalued both of them for me on the Platinum Travel. Plus I don’t like to be pressured to spend from a single card despite paying a steep annual fee.
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Now, with Apple Pay, I find myself using my Axis cards a lot more. I’m better off improving my relationship with them. I’ll probably keep my card for a couple of more years, redeem the accumulated Amex points and let it go eventually.
You did this to yourself @AmexIndia
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Imagine launching a tech product and the first thing you talk about is radiation to the brain. Plus the verbiage is so off in this tweet. It feels like a justification being provided, despite being a fact.
@deepigoyal as a supporter, all I can say is - you need a stronger team.
Temple is safe to use 24x7 because data transmission is off most of the time. Even when it’s on, Temple operates at such low radio power that it’s exempt from FCC SAR testing requirements.
The 10-minute estimate is based on standard usage conditions.
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
SAR: Specific Absorption Rate
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Temple should be a case-study on how to NOT launch a niche tech product to a wider consumer base.
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Absolutely!
I have immense respect for Deepinder and what he's built with Zomato, Blinkit and District. At the same time, I reserve the right to call out what I perceive as gimmicks, whether it was the Chief of Staff episode or now Temple.
My opinions could be right, wrong or even unwarranted. That's fine. But when did we become so incapable of having a healthy, objective discourse?
A founder can be brilliant at building businesses and get certain things spectacularly wrong. Someone can be exceptional in one domain and questionable in another. One doesn't cancel out the other.
Founders have every right to experiment, take risks, fail and defend their ideas. Consumers, potential consumers, experts and the public have every right to question, scrutinise and demand evidence.
Why is it that a founder has to be labelled either a visionary or an evil mastermind, while anyone questioning them is either a blind hater or a troll?
Why have we reduced every conversation to picking sides? Why can't we admire someone's achievements and simultaneously question their decisions? Why does acknowledging someone's brilliance have to mean endorsing everything they do?
I genuinely believe we've lost the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory opinions at once. And that's a rather unfortunate place for any society to find itself in.
We need more room for nuance, intellectual honesty and the willingness to disagree without turning every disagreement into a war.
Not every founder is a messiah. Not every critic has an agenda. And not every debate needs a winner.
I find our collective inability to make room for nuance far more disappointing than the debate itself.
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Unnecessary response @deepigoyal. As much as criticism hurts on something you put your heart & soul into, Steve Jobs would never go on stage to defend his vision. It takes away that mystique charm a new launch creates in the mind of the buyers.
Heads down, chip up & keep building
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
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He is not fully wrong, but there’s a catch. Millions of memory space that one pays for, but is never utilised. Memory on demand will unlock a massive potential for people. However the problem is monopoly & capitalism, where these companies eventually become ‘price controllers’.
NEW: Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for everyday people to own RAM, arguing it belongs in data centers.
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Hi guys this is Ranjit from Tech2Buzz dot com.. It’s been 12 years. I miss the 7pm Q&As every Tuesday. Thank you @geekyranjit for everything. You shaped my knowledge & thinking around technology as I see it today.
Most baddass indian tech youtuber and one of the GOAT in the world.
> Banned by One plus for honest critisism
> Banned by Xiomi
> First one to called out apple for indian pricing
> Started reviewing phones
> Now reviewing everything
> Never hesitate, always gives honest feedback
> One of the honest Youtuber ever
Geeky Ranjit
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Hi @amazonIN @AmazonHelp
I need a call back from escalation desk. Order placed on 8th Oct. Delivered with box damaged. Took 1 week for a replacement, and today marked the delivery as attempted despite nobody coming home/calling me.
This is your customer service’s response.
This is why I choose Indigo instead of unpredictable crap airlines like @OfficialStarAir
Not only will I need to now pay a lot higher fare, but @amazonIN has also denied to refund convenience fee from it.
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Hi @Apple
Apple Pay transaction via tap to pay from Apple watch was working successfully earlier is now failing. Pls look into it.
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Wise words. Apple keynotes now are super optimised, with people and cameras jumping here are there; but go back and watch Steve Jobs reveal the Macbook Air, the iPod, the iPhone. Tell me which one do you like?
Not everything needs to be optimized. It takes away the fun from it.
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Replying to @TajHotels
@TajHotels Your reservations team is painfully slow in responding to emails. It’s very tough to plan with such ambiguity. Please intervene and help.
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These phone cases brands need to calm down. Don’t bite the hands that feed you. Good luck the day Apple decides to put an end to this nonsense and stops providing early dimensions/prototypes.
Apple has their own accessories. They choose not to compete. Don’t let them change that.
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Hi @airtelindia Have you lost your mind? Why are you using service line to spam users despite my number being on DND?
I’ve received 35-40 SMS from you in the last 3 days.
Filing a complaint against you with @TRAI
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My theory
Amex wants to focus entirely on the Reserve and Platinum charge cards in India. Aligns with why they have been heavily advertising Reserve for the last 1 yr.
Seems like Amex played a master move here. ♟️
First came the mysterious MRCC → Platinum Travel upgrade links.
Then came the March milestone changes. A devaluation, yes, but still manageable.
And now? A monster devaluation that completely changes the Platinum Travel milestone game.
The interesting part: A lot of users were attracted towards Platinum Travel, a card where the renewal fee cannot simply be waived by hitting a spend threshold.
And after getting people onto the card, the milestone proposition itself has been significantly weakened.
For many users, the strategy now could simply become:
Hit the milestone → extract the value → close the card before renewal.
I genuinely don’t understand what Amex is trying to achieve with Platinum Travel in India.
There has to be a bigger strategy behind this. 👀
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