ET GBS 2019: Smartphone revolution’s opening up high-growth opportunities for Indians

In 1994, my mother bought me my first computer, a second-hand IBM PS/2 with 33Mhz of CPU, 2MB of RAM, and a stunning 32MB HDD drive. Best of all, it had a sound card so I could play MIDI files. It was a revolutionary moment in my life where I replaced my comic books to reading manuals of MS Dos and Windows 3.11. I vividly remember as if it was yesterday.

A few years later my mother felt that I was ready to take on a more expensive and powerful machine —a Fujitsu computer with a Pentium 2 processor, clocking 200MHz with a network icon next to the clock on the start-menu, blinking that you were constantly online on a 10Mbit full duplex connectivity. All the information in the world, was just a few clicks away.