Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown Google's India operation has launched a new feature that enables users to find and transact with essential stores during the novel coronavirus lockdown. According to the company's Indian blog, the new feature is called "Nearby Spot" and will help users locate nearby stores that remain open during the country's lockdown. The …
sadly, this advice, while absolutely sound, is futile, because humans focus solely on "NOW", and when shit starts hitting the fan tomorrow, yeah, well, never mind tomorrow, we'll think about some shit-shield tomorrow. Limp from one self-inflicted crises to another, that's the strategy. I'm pretty impressed we haven't done ourselves properly (yet). But then, stat-clock is ticking.
beware Google bearing gifts...
.. because it will NEVER voluntarily let go of that juicy precise location tracking data once it has its claws in it as it can sell very personalised advertising on top of it.
It is guaranteed it'll try this con globally.
Last night our President Macron told us that the lockdown in France (and, by extension, I suppose all of Europe, but he didn't specify that) was extended until May 11th. He said that there will be testing of all people presenting symptoms, so not the same approach as Taiwan, who was exemplary on that matter.
"Nearby Spot adds local geolocation to Spot. It's already available in Bengaluru and will be launched in Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, and Delhi soon. At which point it will cover more than 40 million people. For perspective, that's more people than Canada or Poland. And therefore quite a market for Google Pay!"
Was that copy/pasted from the press release?
Sure, 40 million people may be more than the population of Canada, which is mostly uninhabited, but it is 3% of the Indian population, in a country where "villages" have a larger population than cities elsewhere.
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